Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller

The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seemLast week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; the other an AI-generated clip of Trump’s planned “presidential library”, a waterfront skyscraper in Miami. Both sent the same message, though: the l...