Don McGahn and the Freedom Caucus PresidencyMcGahn’s tenure underscores the quiet, steady and ascendant influence of small government conservatives in the Donald Trump era.by Curt Mills August 31, 2018“Don McGahn is the most consequential White House Counsel in history,†Dave Warrington , Donald Trump’s lawyer in the 2016 Republican Convention fight, told me earlier this week after the president announced that McGahn’s tenure was reaching its terminus.
“Don,†says Warrington, “had the vision that Trump as President could reshape the federal judiciary by appointing conservative textualist judges in the Scalia Thomas mode.â€
He also has “been the intellectual force behind the legal strategy the administration used to cut excessive government regulations that have been strangling American business and industry†and “led the administration’s efforts to reign in an overly zealous bureaucracy that has too long run this town with little oversight.â€
As McGahn wraps up his time in the executive, most of the attention has been on apparent personal differences between him and the president, as well as speculation over what McGahn might or might not have told the special attorney, Robert S. Mueller III.
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/don-mcgahn-and-freedom-caucus-presidency-30217
