House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a comment Thursday night in anticipation of President Trump’s announcement of declaring a national emergency.
What she said should greatly concern all of us as Americans. Here’s what she had to say:
“I know that Republicans have some unease about it no matter they say. … Just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people.”
“You want to talk about a national emergency? Let’s talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency,” Pelosi argued. “A Democratic president can do that. Democratic presidents can declare emergencies, as well. So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans.”
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, in a joint statement, said that declaring a national emergency would be an act of lawlessness:
“Declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise to have Mexico pay for his wall. He couldn’t convince Mexico, the American people or their elected representatives to pay for his ineffective and expensive wall, so now he’s trying an end-run around Congress in a desperate attempt to put taxpayers on the hook for it. The Congress will defend our constitutional authorities.”
So that says a lot about Nancy Pelosi. She says that declaring a national emergency would be an act of lawlessness…yet, she threatens a Democratic president doing that very thing to seize guns? It’s obvious what her agenda is. It’s very, very clear.
CNN political commentator Doug Heye tweeted, “Make no mistake: the next Democratic President will declare national emergencies on guns and climate change and cite the Trump precedent when doing so.”
President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., responded, “Make no mistake, anyone who thinks they wouldn’t do this all anyway hasn’t been watching.”
Make no mistake, anyone who thinks they wouldn’t do this all anyway hasn’t been watching. https://t.co/cxbEPT88Yz
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 14, 2019
And I agree with Trump Jr. If given the opportunity to do so, they’re going to do it in a heartbeat. We need to start preparing for that day now.
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