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highplainsdem

(49,006 posts) Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:46 PM Jan 2019

David Frum: WH expects nat'l emergency declaration will help Trump now, courts won't rule till April

Frum's tweet about this:

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Still it's a workable face-saving plan
Declare emergency Saturday
STAND STRONG!
Pay resumes, employees return to work ...
Trump can deliver State of Union Jan 29.
By time courts rule against Trump April-ish, at least 4 other scandals/crises have supervened

That tweet starts with "Still..." because of Frum's previous tweet about a national emergency declaration to get around Congress being "spectacularly unpopular: 51-36 against; 41-20 strongly against":

Link to tweet

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David Frum: WH expects nat'l emergency declaration will help Trump now, courts won't rule till April (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2019 OP

Those numbers are depressingly favorable to IQ45 ... unbelievable ... (nt) mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author emulatorloo Jan 2019 #2

??? The poll numbers mentioned in that second tweet show a majority against Trump using a highplainsdem Jan 2019 #3

If he proclaims it, separatism will go mainstream. roamer65 Jan 2019 #4

Fucking Politico Downtown Hound Jan 2019 #5

Can't be any real security threats if Homeland Security is partly shut down. TheBlackAdder Jan 2019 #6

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

1. Those numbers are depressingly favorable to IQ45 ... unbelievable ... (nt)

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:49 PM

Jan 2019

Response to mr_lebowski (Reply #1)

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highplainsdem

(49,006 posts)

3. ??? The poll numbers mentioned in that second tweet show a majority against Trump using a

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:55 PM

Jan 2019

national emergency to get around Congress.

I will admit that it's depressing there's ANY support for Trump doing this, but he does have that minority, the deplorables, as his base.

The people he said would still support him if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue.