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The bizarre plaudits fawning Republicans offered Trump on White House return: new book

Congress Did Not Check Trump; It Curated His CourtThe Real Power Was Not HiddenThe reporting, drawn from Regime Change, describes a simple political fact with embarrassing clarity: Trump returned to the White House and House Republicans did not treat that as a constitutional problem. They treated it as an opportunity for tribute. After the same party briefly recoiled when he lost in 2020 and was impeached a second time, they came back in 2024 and endorsed him as a bloc. The institution with leverage was not the man alone. It was the Republican congressional caucus, and it chose…

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