During an interview with the “Today” show Vice President Mike Pence confirmed that declaring a national emergency over President Trump’s border wall is an option on the table.
“What I expect the President will do tonight is explain to the American people that we have a humanitarian crisis at our southern border. … It simply is overwhelming the ability of our customs and border patrol to address it,” he said in an interview that aired Tuesday morning, adding that declaring a national emergency is “something (Trump’s) looking at and considering.”
Is President Trump going to declare a national emergency in tonight’s prime-time address? @halliejackson asks @VP Mike Pence pic.twitter.com/4Tm9TOR2L4
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 8, 2019
Chin straps firmly in place, here we go folks. How far will he go?
If there is a crisis it is because you chose to jail harmless asylum seekers waiting for their asylum hearing, without having planned for the jail facilities. It is a manufactured crisis (law does not require or even recommend jailing asylum seekers) self-inflicted (you didn’t plan). Politically you’re that guy on youtube who shot himself in the foot showing off his quick-draw technique.
Because it never gets old…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paxk_LPmdMIOK, you wanna get really freaked out? This did it for me last night before heading to bed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOs7KqRgOkWatch this short video by the Atlantic and consider the implications.
Emergency Powers would have to be adjudicated in court as soon as someone brought a lawsuit against him, which would most likely be filed immediately. That could take time however. In the meantime, he can and will do a whole lot of damage beyond this stupid no-wall-wall. Autocrats, like the kind he looks up to, place no limits on their behavior. He wants that freedom to act. We are entering seriously dangerous territory in this country. That’s no bullshit.
Frankly, I used to scare myself over this shitweasel’s actions. Now I’m scared by what others are writing and telling us are the potential pitfalls and danger signs posted in full view for all of us to see. And still, the networks are allowing him to pull this propaganda coup to spout his delusional crap. SMH! I am outraged to say the least.
Also, there’s this as an accompaniment to this video for further information on how all this works:
And this from the Brennan Center on Presidential Emergency Powers once invoked (mind you, it doesn’t have to relate exactly to the wall either for him to put other unilateral powers into effect because he’ll rationalize its all part of a national security emergency):
Sorry for the snark on this topic, but what Trump needs are some real high-quality professional speech writers, the quality of those who wrote Colin Powell’s UN speech and Bush’s speech on WMD and the need to invade Iraq. Trump should send Mulvaney over to the NYT and MSNBC to see if some of the old Bush vets would come back to help him out on this one.