Donald Trump has accused Democrats of working to undermine the legitimacy of his presidency, but he should look somewhere else: to the faceless bureaucrats leaking drafts of his executive orders and the West Wing staffers sharing hugely embarrassing information about him.
In the past two days alone, government sources gave reporters drafts of executive orders that would gut US contributions to international organizations like the United Nations, potentially pave the way for the CIA to once again torture terror suspects, start the process of building Trump's long-promised wall, and make it easier to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants.
By Wednesday afternoon, senior officials like Defense Secretary James Mattis were working to distance themselves from the more controversial of the measures, potentially making it harder for Trump to actually put them into place.
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