Trump built his empire on bullying and bluster. It can’t save him now | Gwenda Blair

An anonymous New York Times op-ed has left the world wondering if the president’s long career of getting away with just about anything is finally over

Almost everything that has occurred during the Trump presidency – his refusal to release tax returns, his praise for authoritarian leaders, his nasty tweets – has been a departure from precedent.

Last week, we had another departure: an unsigned op-ed in the New York Times, supposedly written by a senior administration official. It describes the Trump White House as a war zone in which “unsung heroes” are secretly averting multiple disasters that would otherwise be caused by their unhinged and unfit boss.

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