Garrett Graff: “The corruption bothers me a great deal, but I want to talk today about a different reason the gift boggles the mind: The national security risk.”

“To put the president of the United States on a plane built and owned by a foreign country for over a decade is the definition of insanity, the assumption of catastrophic and literally unquantifiable risk in an arena where the U.S. devotes billions of dollars a year to mitigating even the slightest, remotest risk to presidential security and communication.”

New York Times: “Under a federal law, the attorney general can appoint an interim U.S. attorney for up to 120 days. But soon after taking office in January, the Trump administration installed a Republican lawyer and political activist, Ed Martin, in that role.”

“The question is whether presidents are limited to one 120-day window for interim U.S. attorneys, or whether they can continue unilaterally installing such appointees in succession — indefinitely bypassing Senate confirmation as a check on their appointment power.”