Dana Gallagher, MPH, PA, CHIC

Archive July 2017

The Bad Leadership Chronicles: I Pardon Myself

“All agree the President has complete power to pardon,” tweeted Trump recently. Constitutional questions aside, pardoning family and pardoning oneself is a tone-deaf, provocative example of a leader’s abuse of power. If you have been following American news at all, you know that Trump has craved, if not demanded, loyalty. Loyalty from his colleagues, his party,

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: Acting Out

Today I woke up to yet another report of Trump tweeting badly: he had posted a mock video of himself tackling and beating a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/media/trump-wrestling-video-cnn-twitter.html Although his Homeland Security Deputy apparently thinks otherwise, Trump’s message is unambiguous: he intends to bring down people or institutions that criticize him–violently if

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