Why is the world conspiring to spoil America's 250th birthday, and, more important, Donald Trump's 80th' Like a Roman emperor, Trump has busied himself with self-aggrandizing public works, such as a massive triumphal arch, and is staging gladiatorial sports in his own honor, in the form of a UFC fight on the White House lawn on June 14. A string of recent setbacks reveals that Trump is no omnipotent emperor after all, but an American president who'more and more'is forced to fold. On Monday, Axios and The New York Times reported that the administration was dropping its plans for the Department of Justice to create an 'anti-weaponization' fund, after other Republicans recoiled at its terms and a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing its operation. This fund was set up as a settlement of Trump's lawsuit against the IRS (an agency he controls) over the leaking of his tax returns. Trump was suing for $10 billion in damages, but withdrew his lawsuit against himself in...
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