From appointing obvious industry cronies to regulate the industries they used to represent (right up to the extreme of appointing a coal lobbyist to head the Environmental Protection Agency), openly siding with America’s dictatorial adversaries above his own intelligence services, defending torch-wielding neo-Nazi protesters at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas, and refusing to commit to accepting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, no rules seemed to be protected from the president’s transgressions.
