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dismayed by William Barr, Trump’s current attorney
general, for having stepped up as Trump’s chief apol-
ogist. Fried says of Barr. “His reputation is gone.”
Fried was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935, a coun-
try soon overrun by fascists and, later, by commu-
nists. His family escaped to England in 1939 and
came to the United States in 1941. Fried became a U.S.
citizen in 1948, got his B.A. from Princeton in 1956,
two jurisprudence degrees from Oxford, and then a
law degree from Columbia in 1960. He
took a faculty position at Harvard Law
School in 1961, and has been affiliated
there, on and off, ever since, authoring
nine books on law and moral philos-
ophy. He has argued more than twocharles fried was a fervent, superior
officer on the frontlines of the Reagan Revo-
lution. As solicitor general of the United States from
1985 to 1989, he urged the U.S. Supreme Court to
overturn the reining liberal orthodoxies of his day:
abortion, civil rights, executive power and consti-
tutional interpretation.
But the Trump Revolution has proven a bridge
too far. As he reveals in a scorching interview with
Newsweek, Fried has broken ranks. He
denounces a president who is “per-
haps the most dishonest person to
ever sit in the White House.” As dis-
gusted as he is by President Donald
Trump, Fried is, if possible, even more“Every Day
That a Corrupt
President Sits,
He is Capable
of Doing Serious
Damage”
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