President Donald Trump just fired Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, and despite this being the umpteenth time he’s fired someone without the authority to do so, corporate media has still given him a pass.

Take the Washington Post, for example. Right in the subhead it says, “It was unclear if Trump can dismiss Smithsonian leaders.”

And here’s Politico doing the same thing: “It is not immediately clear if the president can dismiss the gallery’s director.”

And, of course, we can’t forget about The New York Times, which said, “It was unclear if the president had legal grounds to fire the director, experts said, because the National Portrait Gallery is part of the Smithsonian Institution, which is independent of the federal government despite receiving nearly two-thir

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