Trump quickly works to concentrate power and muzzle critical voices [View all]
(NBC News) WASHINGTON — Moving at a rapid-fire clip, Donald Trump has been concentrating power in his hands, pushing the bounds of executive authority while effectively muzzling an array of voices that pose threats to his agenda.
Trump is using the multiple levers that a president commands both to neuter institutions he has scorned and reward others that align with his worldview.
One by one, he is bending ostensibly independent actors under the weight of his power. So far, Trump has targeted the legal community, universities, the arts, career government employees and the press and brought them to heel in some measure, willingly or not. Law firms with even indirect ties to past investigations of Trump now face punitive measures that could put them out of business.
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