Washington (CNN)If you weren't taking President Donald Trump literally, you were wrong.
"Lock her up!" and "America First!" are more than just slogans. He's stress-testing the government for ways to punish his rival Hillary Clinton and absolving Saudi Arabia for the way its titular leader dispatched with one of his critics in exchange for their participation in the US arms market.
The tension between powers is what keeps the US government in balance, but as he does with everything, Trump has supercharged the stress.
