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Trump and the GOP obliterated the Founders' key fix for a corrupt president (opens in new tab)

The Founding Fathers of the U.S. had a system in mind to rein in a rogue, criminal president, one who might try to pardon themselves for their own crimes.It was a system, however, that could never have conceived of a president like Donald Trump, or a party like the modern GOP that surrounds him, according to a new piece from The Dispatch, leaving the fundamentals of the constitutional order in disarray.In the piece, Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg observed that a foundational rule und...

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