In a series of tweets posted Monday, former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith slammed President Donald Trump’s style of governance which he claims has taken the country “far beyond normal.”

The senior George W. Bush-era Justice Department official who now teaches at Harvard Law railed against the president’s “instability” and how he “infects the legal soundness of everything his administration does.”

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Since his inauguration, Goldsmith wrote, Trump has taken the country “so far beyond normal that it’s hard to have any faith in executive branch.”

From shutting out and “viciously” attacking the press and firing former FBI Director James Comey to spilling “deep secrets to Russians” in the Oval Office, Goldsmith claimed that Trump and the officials who work under him have made even normal executive functioning difficult with their string of scandals.

Like many other commentators, Goldsmith invoked President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and subsequent resignation in face of impeachment as comparisons to Trump.

“As best I can tell,” he wrote, “no president’s actions have ever so adversely affected trust in his administration, including Nixon during Watergate.”

Despite being appointed by the Bush administration, Goldsmith served for less than a year before resigning in 2004 in protest of the Justice Department’s use of coercive torture. He wrote about his tenure in the administration and his criticisms of it in a memoir titled The Terror Presidency in 2007.

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Read Goldsmith’s entire thread below.

1/ Trump’s actions since January, & especially in last month, take us so far beyond normal that it’s hard to have any faith in Exec branch. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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2/ In the last month alone he has told many lies, fired Comey related to Russia probe, dissed long-time allies, re-attacked courts, — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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3/ Shut out & viciously attacked the press, reacted whole inappropriately to London attack, spilled deep secrets to Russians, — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

4/ Called appointment of Mueller by his DAG Rosenstein a “witch hunt,” called honorable former officials liars, etc. etc. etc. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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5/ Given POTUS’s instability, it is not just courts that have reason to relax presumption of regularity for this Prez. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

6/ We all have reason to do so about everything the Executive branch does that touches, however lightly, the President. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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7/ .@benjaminwittes took this view on 11-6: “DT does not enter office with a presumption of regularity in his work.” https://t.co/WQ5v8ffzwV — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

8/ I don’t know about 11-6, but this view is certainly warranted now and has been for a while. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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9/ One thing DT behavior entails (as predicted, https://t.co/fooV7AynXb) is many losses in court, and not just on the immigration EOs. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

10/ Everything else Executive would normally win—reversing Clean Power Plan, terminating treaty, new regs, etc.—will be much, much harder. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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11/ The impulsive, uncontrolled, ill-informed President infects the legal soundness of everything his administration does. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

12/ As best I can tell, no President’s actions have ever so adversely affected trust in his administration, including Nixon during Watergate — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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13/ My sympathies for the honorable people (especially the honorable attorneys) working around Trump are greater than ever. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

14/ Every hour they face the qu whether doing the normal thing in protecting presidential prerogatives is, with this POTUS, appropriate. — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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15/ Thus the question: How much can *executive branch officials* indulge the presumption of regularity in their work? — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

16/ And: To the extent that they can’t, how long do they continue to serve? — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) June 5, 2017

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