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Trump administration officials hectored the agency’s leaders, rewrote its guidance and meddled with its research reports, undermining the morale of scientists even as the crisis ballooned.

Testimony to the committee also showed how Trump hectored local officials to affect the outcomes of their states’ vote in his favor.

“To be hectored and condemned; to be told that they were wholly wrong” was for Lincoln “a path not to reform but to intransigence,” Meacham writes.

He hectored couples as they waited at the hospital for abortions on account of fetal abnormalities, which were permitted until the law was further tightened last year.

He hectored Pence to do what he didn’t have the power — or the will — to do, when called upon to certify the election.