This is a nice run-down of how Trump has systematically abused the Constitution of the United States by refusing all Congressional oversight. It's obviously been a push-pull act for decades - if not a century - over the proper role of the Congress to oversee the Executive. There are obvious areas where the presidency has some leeway over what they can do unilaterally.
What Trump has done has been to willfully and directly violate some statutes and then dared anyone to do anything about it. With a majority of the Republican electorate behind him, he's inoculated from repercussions inside the GOP, so he feels unbound. Fox News is both the catalyst for his crimes and the shieldwall against accountability. Because Fox basically tells the GOP base what to believe, they will never break with Trump until Murdoch, Hannity and Carlson do. This has plunged them into an alternative reality with dire consequences for the Republic.
Once the malignant narcissist is gone, Congress will need to assert some control over the White House. Legal penalties for failing to respond to subpoenas, for instance. What they can do about Fox News is a far trickier subject.
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