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Obama signed a fair number of executive orders (277) and was not really checked either. Trump was certainly on track to significantly outpace that count, he was simply continuing a trend of overusing executive orders to achieve what really should have been legislation. This abuse of power is completely bi-partisan.

Of course, I could now say something to the effect of democrats having selective memory when it comes to talking about sort of thing... but that wouldn't useful, fully correct, or factual and these sorts of statements are much more self service than revealing outrageous truths.




Obama's XOs were almost all constitutional. He was a constitutional law professor and Obama is unironically someone who should serve on the supreme court given his deep legal experience.

The overwhelming majority of trumps meaningful XOs were not constitutional at all.




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