Analysis: If the Senate calls no witnesses, the lesson of President Trump's stonewalling strategy will be that the president can easily seize power from Congress. - jonallendc
By any account, Trump has taken an unusually broad view of executive power for a modern president. He issued a blanket order to administration officials to defy House subpoenas — though some ignored him — and his agencies refused to produce documents sought by investigators. But at that time, Trump was fighting a Democratic-led House, and he surely believed he could portray his recalcitrance as a matter of protecting himself from partisan warfare.
But in neither of those instances was Trump already impeached and awaiting a vote in the Senate on whether he should be removed from office because of his alleged ongoing abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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