Donald Trump's manufactured emergency
by Bill Press, Tribune Content Agency
Feb 21, 2019
3 minutes
He vowed he was going to do it. White House lawyers said it would probably be struck down by the courts, Republican senators warned it would set a dangerous precedent, and legal scholars declared it an unconstitutional end run around the Congress. But he vowed he was going to do it, so he did it, anyway.
In a rambling, surreal, largely incoherent appearance in the Rose Garden on February 15, Donald Trump announced he was signing a Declaration of National Emergency: enabling
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