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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:46 PM Jan 2019

Trump's dangerous "national emergency" gambit: Can he get away with it?


Faced with an endless shutdown and decaying support, Donald Trump could order the military to build the wall

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
JANUARY 7, 2019 2:30PM (UTC)

We are in the third week of the Trump shutdown and reality is starting to bite. According to the Washington Post, nobody in the White House had given any consideration to the consequences of a protracted standoff, and were surprised that it resulted in actual disruption and human suffering. That report concludes that administration officials are now focused "on understanding the scope of the consequences and determining whether there is anything they can do to intervene." It's not going well.

Meanwhile, our national parks are drowning in toxic human waste, security lines at the airport are miserable with TSA agents refusing to work for no pay and even airline pilots are begging the president to stop the insanity. That's just the beginning. At the end of this week federal workers all over the country will miss their paychecks and may start to run out of funds for food and housing.

President Trump insists that federal workers are happy to go without pay in order for him to get his wall. He says they'll "adjust." After all, he can relate:




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https://www.salon.com/2019/01/07/trumps-dangerous-national-emergency-gambit-can-he-get-away-with-it/

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Trump's dangerous "national emergency" gambit: Can he get away with it? (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
If that asshole builds it, the next president must knock it down. Initech Jan 2019 #1
As if Brit. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #2
This is not going to end well. Girard442 Jan 2019 #3
Response to Brit Hume from Twitter: Qutzupalotl Jan 2019 #4
+1 Heck yeah. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #5

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
2. As if Brit.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:52 PM
Jan 2019

Yeah, the president is really feeling the pain like the federal workers. His overhead/bills are paid for by the USA and his family-and himself-are grifting multi millions off the US Taxpayer.

Girard442

(6,059 posts)
3. This is not going to end well.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:54 PM
Jan 2019

If there was a "Doomsday Clock" ticking down to an extra-constitutional resolution of this situation, it would have ticked past 11:45 already. Who knows how close to midnight it really would be.

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