On Balance by Robert Delaney

By violating US judicial norms, Donald Trump might be putting himself and China in a lose-lose situation

Trump’s penchant for directing judicial outcomes is making the US legal system more like China’s. But if a president emboldened by his impeachment acquittal continues such actions, his re-election campaign might be derailed

Robert Delaney

Published: 1:30am, 18 Feb, 2020

Updated: 2:17am, 18 Feb, 2020

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Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.