The fact that his chief of staff called him a fascist is disqualifying on its own.
But it is already so last news cycle in US newsworld.
This happens constanty in the blizzard of awful.
Maybe the news people should stick to one issue and keep hammering away at it rather than keep moving on from one to the next, none of the stories sticking to the monster, because the shock of today's horror is so invigorating.