Branches of government? There's this many.

It might seem that the Trump regime didn’t bother to talk with anyone about their Muslim ban. After all, they didn’t discuss it with the people at Homeland Security who would have to enforce it. They didn’t share it with the State Department to see how it would affect America’s relationships overseas. They didn’t give the military a peek, so someone could determine how to prepare. And they most certainly didn’t get an okay from the Justice Department to be sure their proposal avoided the 1965 law against limiting immigration by nation—it doesn’t—or that giving special treatment to non-Muslims in a series of Muslim countries would pass Constitutional muster— errrr … no.

It might seem that the whole order was simply found under a rock, or came by translating one of the Zodiac messages, or was assembled scissors-and-tape style from Breitbart comment threads. However, as it turns out, Trump’s team did need help in creating an order that maintained a passing resemblance with English. They got that help by stealing Congressional staff without telling Congress.

Senior staffers on the House Judiciary Committee helped Donald Trump's top aides draft the executive order curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, but the Republican committee chairman and party leadership were not informed, according to multiple sources involved in the process.

Trump forced the staffers to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements promising they’d zip their lips about their work in building the ban. During his campaign, Trump even insisted that volunteers sign NDAs. (They’re his favorite semi-legal document, right after prenups.) But the idea that Trump is not just hiding the actions of government, but literally forcing government workers to promise their work will stay hidden … that’s fantastic in the most “holy shit, is that an actual coup in the White House?” sense of the term.