Analysis: All-powerful Trump tells America, ‘Nothing bad can happen’ | CNN Politics

Just one of the wild actions and comments on Donald Trump’s manic Monday would rank among the most notorious things another president ever did. By close of business, Trump had taken strides toward the presidency he’s always wanted: one of unfiltered authority flowing from the presidential Sharpie, shredding traditional institutions and providing a platform for demagoguery. Often, the round-the-clock cacophony from the White House seems expressly designed to stifle public comprehension of each individual act planned to irrevocably change the country and the world. This was certainly the case on a day that fulfilled some core goals of the Trump base but also helped to explain the plunging presidential approval ratings that have Republicans looking with dread toward the midterm elections. It all started when one of the president’s former personal lawyers, now Appeals Court Judge Emil Bove, swore in another of the president’s former personal lawyers, Todd Blanche, as attorney general. This was peak Trump. Nine years after the president asked James Comey for loyalty — as the fired former FBI chief told it — one of his ultimate loyalists was on Monday installed in a Senate-co