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Who told Trump he had "total authority" and could force governors to reopen their states? The answer is obvious
Back on April 13, President Trump made an astonishing declaration, even for him, and he's made some doozies. You may recall that this was the briefing at which he showed a strange campaign-style video featuring compliments from Democratic officials, which had clearly been inspired by a very similar compilation shown the night before on Sean Hannity's Fox News show, already a de facto Trump celebration hour.
It was also the appearance in which he repeatedly made the claim that he had "total authority" to reopen the government and blathered on about how he'd saved hundreds of thousands of lives when he supposedly "closed" the country in the first place.
Kaitlan Collins of CNN asked him a question I think we all were wondering at that point:
You said, "When someone is president of the United States, their authority is total." That is not true. Who — who told you that?
Trump didn't answer. The next day Trump announced that it would be up to the governors to decide when they wanted to open up. (He said he would "authorize" them to do it, even though they don't need any such authorization.) Various media outlets have reported that he was convinced to do this because it would be better for his electoral prospects if he can blame the governors for whatever goes wrong with the reopening.
Trump has often touted his alleged total authority, saying on one famous occasion that Article II of the Constitution gives him "the right to do whatever I want as president." But when Collins asked him that question I was pretty sure I knew who told him that. The most powerful legal authority in the administration who believes that the president has almost unlimited power is Attorney General William Barr.