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Republicans flummoxed by Trump 'throwing a grenade' into latest nomination fight
Trump Uses National Security as a Hostage NotePower, Not ProcedureThe important fact here is not that Senate Republicans were “scrambling.” It is that Donald Trump had enough control over the process to stop a national intelligence nomination from moving forward with a social-media post and a phone call. That is the real institutional fact pattern: the White House, not the committee, is setting the tempo.Jay Clayton was poised for a hearing, and then Trump ordered him not to show. Tom Cotton, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, translated that order into congressional…
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