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The extraordinary authority of the US presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today, that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies. From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage?

Originally published on www.lawfareblog.com, Brookings Senior Fellow and legal analyst Benjamin Wittes, reads the 448-page Mueller report carefully, and wrote his thoughts as he progressed. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Notes on the Mueller Report: A Reading Diary and learn about political science and the Federal Government.