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Donald Trump is about to bring down the U.S. with two simple words, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.

Political strategist Steve Schmidt, who Saturday published an article in which he argued that Pete Hegseth is setting the stage for a potential "coup," followed that up with a piece called, The domestic enemies of the US Constitution.

U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali found that an immigrant could face torture after President Donald Trump's administration deported him despite an ongoing court case.

"Victor Omar Bonilla Alvarez escaped years of torture and abuse at the hands of MS-13 and law enforcement in El Salvador," Ali explained in his ruling on Sunday. "Just in March, an immigration judge in this country found Bonilla Alvarez will likely face torture again if returned to El Salvador."

Federal prosecutors are at risk of an "enormously compromising" situation if they continue to pursue cases against Donald Trump's perceived enemies, according to a group of former presidential ethics counsel.

Norman Eisen, co-founder and a board member of Democracy Defenders Action, and Richard W. Painter, law professor at the University of Minnesota and Virginia Canter, chief counsel for ethics and anti-corruption of Democracy Defenders Fund, wrote a piece Sunday called, "If the Trump DOJ can indict Comey, then no one is safe from political prosecution."

Legal commentator Elie Honig said during a podcast Sunday that the indictment of former FBI director James Comey might be "abuse of executive power."

Speaking to journalist John Avalon on The Bulwark's podcast, Honig, who is the author of the book When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump, said, "I mean, God, Trump basically, by mistake, published a DM demand to his AG that in any other environment would be seen as a smoking gun for abuse of executive power. And now it just seems like something happened two Fridays ago. And who can remember or care?"

Donald Trump may be enjoying a lot of consolidated power across branches of government, but he doesn't have a lasting political legacy, according to a former member of the president's first administration.

Karen Tumulty, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, published a piece Sunday called, Trump swerves and swaggers on the world stage. In the article, she argues, "What remains largely missing for the president are the kind of foundational principles that historians might someday refer to as a 'Trump doctrine.'"