Trump centralizing power by bypassing Congress: Analyst
US President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban entry of Muslims from seven countries has sparked outrage among people both in the United States and across the globe. In a harsh move, Trump has fired acting attorney general, Sally Yates, for her refusal to defend the president’s anti-Muslim sanction. The White House has also warned diplomats who oppose Trump’s immigration policy to get in line or quit.
President Trump is planning to transfer all powers in the United States into a circle through dodging constitutional entities, said Max Igan, a radio host and political commentator from Brisbane.
Trump is “streamlining the process of lawmaking” which means he is seeking the “centralization of power,” Igan told Press TV’s Top 5 on Tuesday.
His main goal now is to transfer all active power into a “tight inner circle” and eliminate all possible “checks and balances of Congress” and he’s purging anyone who disagrees with him, the radio host added.
“This is a very very dangerous situation for the people of the United States,” Igan said, warning that “Trump might be a tyrant that is knocking the backdoor.”
It is almost like he is setting up a “precursor for a coup d’état” in the United States, the analyst noted.
According to Igan, Trump has issued an executive order, “which is essentially overwriting the constitution and overwriting the Congress and bypassing the Congress and when the Supreme Court has attempted to step in and stop the chaos, he’s overwritten the Supreme Court [as well].”
“This is very unconstitutional,” he said, adding that “it almost seems like Donald Trump is testing the waters to see just how much he can get away with, [and] just how much the Homeland Security can break the law and break the constitution of the United States.”
Under the controversial executive order, citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia are banned from entering the US for at least 90 days.
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