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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor the duration of his criminal trial, Donald J. Trump has moved back into the penthouse of Trump Tower at the corner of 5th Avenue and 56th Street. With the owner and former president back in residence, you might think they'd spruce up the abutting commercial and retail space. You'd be wrong. The Daily Beast dropped in earlier this week for a tour of the "crown jewel of The Trump Organization."
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Metal barriers take up half the sidewalk and serve two purposes: (1) to hold back crowds; and (2) to force people to cross the avenue if they want a selfie of themselves giving the finger to Trump Tower.
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 Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesDonald Trump's presidency has served as a wake-up call that our Constitution and our laws were not designed to handle an authoritarian like him. And Thursday's Supreme Court hearing on presidential immunity was yet another reminder of that fact.
It's dangerous to try and divine the court's opinion based on oral arguments; however, the consensus seems to be heading in a direction that says that a president should be immune from prosecution over "official," but not private, acts. On the surface, this seems like a reasonable precedent. After all, we don't want a banana republic where former presidents are unfairly targeted for prosecution after they leave office.
Still, this foreboding thought remains: It is virtually impossible to untwine "official" acts from personal crimes. Someone like Trump can always lie about his motives.
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