President Trump began demolishing the East Wing for a $200 million ballroom, breaking his July promise that the existing White House structure wouldn’t be touched.

He bypassed the National Capital Planning Commission review process after stacking the oversight body with top aides, including his staff secretary as chairman.

The rule-breaking tactics echo strategies Trump used at Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower, where he ignored permits, broke agreements and sued local governments.

WASHINGTON — President Trump has begun demolition of the East Wing as he remakes the White House in his image, ignoring rules, breaking promises and taking a wrecking ball to the approval process in an echo of the strategies he deployed in Florida and New York as he built his real estate empire.

An excavator ripp

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