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President Trump doesn’t hide the fact that he rejects many of the constraints on presidential power that every other post-Watergate president has accepted.

Here’s a partial list of Trump’s flouting: He has defied congressional subpoenas; dismissed the findings of the C.I.A. and F.B.I.; refused to release his tax returns; invited foreign governments to interfere in American elections; continued to own his personal businesses; and forced out an attorney general for not protecting him. To Trump, power matters more than democratic traditions. (And here’s a fuller list.)

In the last two weeks — as the virus has continued to dominate the nation’s attention — Trump has taken four new actions that fit the pattern:

1. Yesterday, he ousted Glenn Fine, a well-respected inspector general who was supposed to oversee the $2 trillion spending in the recent coronavirus bill.