How Trump circumventing Congress is different from previous presidents

The disdain as to why information on the Maduro raid was withheld even from senior lawmakers is unmistakableNothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious arrest of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia.Far from recognizing it, Trump did not even acknowledge Congress’s right to know – keeping senior members in the dark until the operation to seize the strongman was under way. Continue reading...