The Source With Kaitlan Collins: Elie Honig On Donald Trump's Executive Strategy

"CNN's Kaitlan Collins discusses the Trump administration's response to judges blocking some of his executive orders and Trump's tactics toward federal employees with senior legal analyst Elie Honig and political analyst Astead Herndon." 

Source:CNN legal analyst Elie Honig talking about President Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida) 47th President of the United States & 1st wannabe dictator.

From CNN

A very important part of what Elie Honig told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins last night: 

"Yes, this is the only resistance that Donald Trump is facing. And thus far, he's 0 for all of these lawsuits. I mean, thus far, every judge to have considered one of these lawsuits has at least put Donald Trump's actions on hold.

And if I could sort of, to digest what we just heard in that very interesting interview. The position of the workers here is essentially, yes, of course, the President runs the Executive branch. However, that does not mean he gets to do everything and anything he wants within the Executive branch. And what we just heard Ms. Perryman say is there are limits put on that, by Congress, that have to ultimately prevail.

Now, the counterargument there is going to be something we call the unitary executive theory, which is this old, popular notion of the conservative-right that says, The President isn't just the head of the Executive branch, he is the Executive branch. Congress be darned, he can do whatever he wants. So, that's the clash we're headed towards. COLLINS: Which seems to be one that the White House is embracing. I mean, you see how they're responding to the judge pushing this deadline... 

And let me go even farther back in Donald Trump's history. He came up as a real estate baron in this city, by stiffing his contractors, right?

His theory was, Well, I owe this concrete supplier a $100,000 for this job. How about I just pay you nothing? And then you, concrete supplier, who has less resources than me, less time than me, you go hire a lawyer, you go sue me, and you know what's going to probably happen? Probably settle for a fraction of it.

So, it's really that same litigation tactic brought to the White House...

From CNN

From what my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about this earlier today: 

"Senator Kaine was on top of this last week the day that President Trump announced the Federal buyout plan. If you are a Federal worker and you take that plan, you just prove the stereotype that government workers just show to collect their paychecks, but don't actually work for them. And then you are proving another stereotype about government workers that you are so incompetent and lazy, as well as schmucks who makes deals with conmen at their own expense. 

As Senator Kaine said, this Federal buyout plan is not even legal and probably not constitutional either. Congress hasn't and probably wouldn't authorize it. And the Administration could cancel the buyout payments at anytime, with no one to stop them. So these Federal workers would juste be quitting, or retiring, without their buyouts and perhaps without their pensions as well, depending on how long they were in the Federal Civil Service." 

From The New Democrat

I guess my take here is that even though I would be 1 of the last people to ever say that Donald Trump is dumb, or stupid, or call him a pejorative like a moron, or idiot, etc, but only because he isn't those things... but he's very ignorant. Or, at the very least he doesn't care about our form of government, our Constitution, and how those things work. He's not a businessman, but 1 one-man businessman, who is not in business for his company and his workers. Donald is in business simply for himself. And when it comes to government, just like how he sees his company and his employees, the government are just tools that he can use to further enrich himself.

We've had plenty of wealthy people who became President of the United States and made a lot of money in the private sector. George H.W. Bush and his son George W. are the perfect examples of that. Ronald Reagan before the Bush's. The difference between Reagan and the Bush's is that they understood that their private business interests and government's interests, and the people's interests are different things. So they separated their own business interests from the government's. 

In case this isn't obvious enough: (Perhaps you are brand new to America, or just awakening from a coma) Donald Trump doesn't play by the same rules as everyone else. He does what he wants, whenever he wants to do it and then dares the opposition and the rule of law to stop and catch him. Elie Honig's point about Mr. Trump and his construction workers and how he treated them, which is exactly how he's treating Federal workers today... is an excellent example of that. 

So this is why President Trump is running into stiff opposition from the Federal Courts because his business is not government. When you are in government, you have to follow the same rules as everyone else, or you get obstructed and even stopped. And that's what's been happening to the President the last 2 weeks. 

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