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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump should get away with his emergency declaration.....
he may go after the media and anyone who disagrees with? There could be a lot of people thrown behind bars, too? A scary thought of a dictatorship forced upon the American people!
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If Trump should get away with his emergency declaration..... (Original Post)
imanamerican63
Feb 2019
OP
I'd think it should put the kabosh on all of his golfing trips to Mal-A-Lardo, also.
yonder
Feb 2019
#4
There are 31 "national emergencies" currently in effect. Don't think Trump's declaration...
PoliticAverse
Feb 2019
#6
kentuck
(111,056 posts)1. He will test his powers given him by the Congress of the United States...
I have little doubt.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. If he does he screws his own party
walkingman
(7,583 posts)3. Trump and GOP are nothing but a bunch of morons.
yonder
(9,657 posts)4. I'd think it should put the kabosh on all of his golfing trips to Mal-A-Lardo, also.
After all, what president would have time for that during an emergency?
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)5. I don't think he'll get away with it.
It's for the base, and it's all for show.
How is a thing like this going to get through the courts? It might take the rest of DJT's term. But he doesn't really care about the wall at all. He only cares about how it looks to fail.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)8. The courts won't matter if the military sides with him.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)6. There are 31 "national emergencies" currently in effect. Don't think Trump's declaration...
gives him any magical special powers.
See: https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-01-11/us-currently-31-other-national-emergencies-heres-what-means
Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)7. It's no emergency
And only the dumbest, blind-faith freepers would agree with his phony bullshit...