Let me start by sharing a few words from Simon Black, speaking of abuse of power in so many ways:
Presidents do it. Cabinet secretaries do it. Senators and Members of Congress do it. And it’s all abuse. Terrible, terrible abuse. But if people are so juiced up to see one person punished for abuse of power, then why not have a real purge and throw everyone out? I would humbly nominate my 5-week old kitten to take over.
At the end of the day, though, we know this is just more bread and circuses. There’s no chance of anything real happening other than a giant waste of time and money.
Government started allowing government rulers and officials to abuse their powers about as soon as Nimrod invented government. (Or reinvented it: it was surely one of the evils that condemned the Ante-deluvian world, before the Flood.) From emperors and kings down to dogcatchers and metermaids, abuse of power is far more common than faithful public service. Indeed, some have argued that to “properly” serve the public – their “sacred” duty – they must abuse the power granted to them. Just a little bit, of course.
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The Price of Liberty 
Childishness – a growing epidemic in America
Among the many things wrong with government is the people that are in charge. Whether they are elected or appointed, we discover quickly that they and their personality and personal desires create problems for everyone in their jurisdiction. Primarily by stealing more of our freedoms.
The present occupant of 1600 PA is frequently chided for his frequent, vitriolic, and seemingly spur-of-the-moment Tweets. This habit is (we are told) unpresidential, rude, crude, socially-unacceptable, and childish. All of this may be true, but objective observers seem to agree that his media use is both effective and have likely changed the natural of the presidency for good.
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