A frequent critic of President Trump, former CIA Director John Brennan told MSNBC on Monday that Trump’s national emergency declaration sets a “dangerous precedent” for a mercurial president.
“It sets a very dangerous precedent. We don’t know what Mr. Trump might decide next week or next month is going to be a national emergency,” he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “There has to be a foundation to do something as significant as this and the previous declarations were solidly grounded in fact and that’s why individuals that worked for Republican and Democratic administration decided they were going to speak out and they were going to call the lie a lie.”
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 26, 2019
Not gun violence which is an actual national emergency.
Nor playing footsy with the Russians but he really doesn’t plan to poke that snake.
Could be almost anything. The Mueller Report? Don Jr’s indictment? Ivanka’s line of schlock being dropped by another major retailer?
Whatever it is, you can be sure it is something that will affect Trump personally and not something that will affect national security or the welfare of the American people.
Too many Dictatorships start out “legally”. Trump is too ignorant to have read that. But his handlers and enablers are well aware.
If there is one thing that Trump has “manned up” about, it is this:
Trump has attracted the majority of the venom directed at the Putin takeover. He wallows in it. He revels in it as a pig wallows in the trough.
But I have never wavered from my conception that:
And there you have it: an armed force, as it were…covering all the bases:
Media, Legislative, Foreign Power, Judicial…each meriting, in fact, more concern and scorn than Trump could attain on his own.
If the congress refuses to squash this power grab by overriding tRump’s expected veto, they are just giving cover to tRump for his next emergency whereby he pulls an Idi Amin and declares himself president for life. This is put up or shut up time for the GOP
For Cheeto Mussolini ANYTHING that lowers his “ratings” with his base of knuckle-dragging racists and misogynists is a “National Emergency” that can only be fixed by throwing money at it stolen from other parts of the Government to quiet the ravings of the Rabid-Reich-Wing-Radio-Hosts who control his ignorant minions.
Like any other weak “Emperor with no clothes”, his only “solution” to any “crisis” is; Bread and Circuses.