Trump admits it is NOT an emergency - lawsuit Exhibit A?

[NewJeffCT]

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Text of tweet:

Trump, questioned by @PeterAlexander, concedes there’s no national emergency to justify building his wall. “I didn’t need to do this.” “I just want to do it faster.” A gift to all the lawyers preparing to sue him.

[jberryhill]

1. Yes

It is a spectacular own-goal.

[NewJeffCT]

4. good comparison

sort of like this blunder?

[onenote]

13. Defintely a stupid move, but not necessarily a fatal one

Given that there is no definition of what constitutes an emergency in the National Emergencies Act and given further that it could just as easily be said of many if not most of the currently active national emergency declarations that the president didn't "have to" make those declarations, I think a court could basically ignore what he said. Hopefully they won't, but I think they could. There is an assumption being made that the term emergency means some action is urgently needed. That certainly is what most people would think when they hear the word emergency. But again, looking at 32 active emergencies, more than half of which were declared more than a decade ago... urgency doesn't appear to have been a significant consideration in many of them.

For the same reason, while I think its great that Trump is such a poor judge of optics that he doesn't recognize the folly in declaring a national emergency and then going off to play golf, the reality is that the existence of a declared national emergency has rarely if ever altered a president's schedule.

[jberryhill]

14. I was going to say something similar

Yah, whether his definition of “emergency” matches anyone else’s may not be relevant to the discretion and deference afforded presidential determinations.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If anybody was still wondering why Trump's lawyers don't want him to talk to Mueller....

[The Truth Is Here]

3. Judge declares National Emergency invalid, and sanctions the entire Maladministration $50B

for this waste of time. They got to cough up the dough within the next 48 hours, or it will be seized from every known Trump associates.

Including Putin.

[lark]

5. Definitely the dumbest MF*er to ever steal the office of president.

Only issue is will RW Russian/Reupg SCOTUS give a shit? Can 't trust the Russian Repug Senate to do the right thing, not at all. So it's either Roberts stands with the constitution or it's not our governing document anymore. What matters to rw'ers is whatever PUtin tells drumpf he has to do and whatever Hair Furor can steal for himself. The USA as we knew it will be in the throes of destruction.

Roberts please save us because the other 4 RW'ers won't.

[NewJeffCT]

7. We all thought W was dumb

but, he's smarter than Trump and at least Bush realized he wasn't the smartest guy in the room. (Still a horrible president, but Trump sets new lows every day)

[lark]

9. So agree! I never thought we could have a so-called president dumber than W, but we do.

He's als more criminal and hate filled. Not only the worst man (even worse than Jackson) to ever be president, but worst person in the World.

[Strelnikov_]

10. He makes W seem like Yoda

His stupidity is matched by his laziness and incompetence.

[zaj]

6. Any Republican who doesn't vote against a NE after this admission....

... is admitting they are in support of Facism as long as it's the GOP leading it.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I think many of them would prefer that

as long as Republicans are in control

[sellitman]

11. Was that Rudy's advice?

You can't make this shit up.

[NewJeffCT]

12. Rudy seems to have disappeared

over the past several weeks.