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To: Grimmy

Saw this in summary on Truth Hammer’s twitter. Article is from last year. At a news briefing a couple of weeks ago (or so) he said specifically that he has more powers that he can use if he chose to, and the reporter jackalmaggots were all perturbed and wanted to know more. But Trump did not delineate and just emphasized that he had incredible powers at his disposal if needed. This was right when He stated emphatically that there was now a national emergency declared in all 50 states and 4 territories.

Click the link to read the six specifically in this article, from July 2019.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-president-can-do-during-crisis-2018-5

6 unbelievable things the president can do during a crisis

We know our government as one of checks and balances, always ensuring that one branch has oversight over another.

But in case of some kind of national emergency, the president of the United States has the ability to essentially turn the democratically elected government into a sort of constitutional dictatorship, with him (or her) at its center.

This doesn’t mean the chief executive has to enact all the powers at once or that, in an emergency, that they have to enact them at all. These are just the possibilities. In case you read this and think to yourself, “Holy cow, no one is ever going to really do that!” Guess again. Most of these have been done before.

There are four aspects to an emergency: The sudden onset and how long it will last, how dangerous or destructive it is, who it may be dangerous to, and who is best suited to respond. The president has to declare a state of emergency and indicate which powers he’s activating.


646 posted on 04/27/2020 12:30:35 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

Yep. Under the current Emergency Powers situation, the POTUS does have extraordinary power.

Now, in your mind’s eye...

Have Trump exercise those powers.

And then the screaming, non stop, 24/7 on cable news, and all the usual suspects, on every web site, including this one, chiming right along with the depraved and degenerate msm.

Like they already do.

Every damn time.

The Uniparty didn’t invent iself.

And there are plenty of “conservatives” still butt hurt that Romney didn’t win the nom so that they could “lose with honor” to Hillary.

So, we have to put up with s*** until that filth is cleaned out and shut down.


657 posted on 04/27/2020 12:48:53 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: little jeremiah
6 unbelievable things the president can do during a crisis

According to that article, hypothetically, during a national emergency, a President could:

Thanks for that. :)
931 posted on 04/27/2020 8:11:42 PM PDT by meadsjn
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