As always, Trump turns subtext into text. He goes further than any modern president, openly and brazenly violating norms rather than subtly challenging or undermining them.
Brendan Nyhan"DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state, i.e., whether the recipient's location and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State."