What it boils down to is the administrative Deep State wanting one thing, and the President wanting another. They are pissed as hell that he declassified things they wanted classified, moved documents they wanted buried, Cruise Missiled people they wanted alive, declined wars they wanted fought, and investigated crimes they wanted hidden.
Every single one of these things is easily within the President's authority, and usually left to unelected bureaucrats to decide (because the elected President is usually a puppet).
They are trying to make his life hell to ensure neither he nor anyone else makes up their own mind ever again. Whether or not he had the authority is not really in question, the process of lawfare is the punishment.
What it boils down to is the administrative Deep State wanting one thing, and the President wanting another. They are pissed as hell that he declassified things they wanted classified, moved documents they wanted buried, Cruise Missiled people they wanted alive, declined wars they wanted fought, and investigated crimes they wanted hidden.
Every single one of these things is easily within the President's authority, and usually left to unelected bureaucrats to decide (because the elected President is usually a puppet).
They are trying to make his life hell to ensure neither he nor anyone else makes up their own mind ever again. Whether or not he had the authority is not really in question, the process of lawfare is the punishment.