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The attorney for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook – whom President Donald Trump declared fired this week over allegations of mortgage fraud – ripped into the president Friday during a court hearing, and pointed to social media posts from a Trump official as evidence of the president lacking proper cause for the firing.

“The court has to make a choice,” said Abbe Lowell, Cook’s attorney, speaking at a court hearing on the governor’s firing, according to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney. “Either it means nothing, in which the president decided what ‘cause’ means when he says it, like Humpty Dumpty deciding what a word means when he says it.”

According to former White House reporter Brian Karem, during Donald Trump’s first term, he was completely unaware that federal law restrained presidents from deploying military personnel on the streets of America except under very extreme circumstances.

In a column for Salon, where he repeatedly questioned the 77-year-old president’s mental state during his second term, Karem recalled that Trump had trouble remembering the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, and his aides used a reference to the Walt Disney movie “The Lion King” to spur his memory.

As Donald Trump asserts more and more control of the government, overriding Congress, unleashing a flood of executive orders overturning long-time precedents and militarizing Washington, D.C., with threats to do the same to cities run by Democrats, he has also fallen back on proposing a dictatorship during his press conferences.

According to Salon political analyst Heather Digby Parton, it is no coincidence that the president is musing about becoming a dictator at the same time that he is seeing how far he can indulge his authoritarian impulses before Congress and the public have had enough.

President Donald Trump has been privately fuming that his high-profile efforts at ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine have come up empty, and he's reportedly frustrated by the political predicament he's been boxed into by the failure.

The president campaigned on a promise to end the war within 24 hours of taking office, but more than seven months later that goal remains elusive, and he's starting to realize that he's unlikely to broker a summit between the warring nations' leaders, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reported The Atlantic.

A decision by Donald Trump to once again override Congress on spending has put the country on a path to a shutdown at the end of September with Democrats unlikely to bail the administration out, according to some experts.

In a late-night move by Trump, reported by the New York Post, the president is engaging in a “pocket rescission” and clawing back $5 billion in foreign aid and peacekeeping spending that had previously been approved by Congress.

A conservative commentator was served with a fact-check after defending President Donald Trump's decision to send National Guard troops into Democratic-led cities.

Rob Bluey, executive editor of The Heritage Foundation's website The Daily Signal, told "CNN This Morning" that Trump was justified in deploying troops to aid local law enforcement in patrolling the streets, and he claimed the president's move was politically popular.

Donald Trump just made a "legally debated" move that will put us on the course toward a shut down next month, according to political experts.

The conservative New York Post reported in a "midnight scoop" that Trump had scrapped $5 billion in foreign aid in a "rare" action called a "pocket rescission." According to Post reporter Steven Nelson, it is a "legally debated maneuver that hasn't been used in 48 years."