His pledge to direct Justice Department investigations is backed by allies who view his second term as driven by a maximalist theory of a president’s authority.
But it also underscores why a second Trump term would be dramatically different.
Some in Washington saw them as guardrails for a White House intent on fracturing not one, but all three branches of government.
Yet Trump, should he secure a second term, would enter the White House with his most powerful Republican critics on Capitol Hill almost all gone.
That would be a position that isn’t backed by his second term policy plans, or his private impulses during his first term in office – or, for that matter, in the decades prior.
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