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Newspapers Rip 'Imperial' Trump's National

Emergency, Calling Him Biggest Threat Of All
Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost • February 15, 2019

Some of America’s most prominent newspapers

published searing editorials Thursday lashing Donald
Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency so he
can finally build a border wall that’s supported by
neither Congress nor the public.

The New York Times accused Trump of “planning to

take executive overreach to dizzying new heights,” with
severe, lasting consequences long after his
administration is a “dank memory.”

This “fit of presidential pique ... constitutes a reordering

of the power dynamic between the branches of

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government. Mr. Trump aims to usurp one of Congress’

most basic responsibilities, the power of the purse,” the
Times warned.
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Every legislator should be “bellowing in alarm,”
particularly Republicans who complained endlessly
about what they characterized as the “imperial
presidency” of Barack Obama, the editorial argued.

The “poison cherry atop this sundae is that Mr. Trump is

subverting American democracy for a cause opposed by
a majority of the public,” the newspaper concluded.

The Washington Post bashed the new “imperial stage” of

Trump’s presidency, and had plenty of vitriol left over
for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.),
who has “perfected a trick: roll over and play dead.”

By “becoming a rubber stamp for Mr. Trump, Mr.

McConnell has set a precedent: that he is prepared to
accept any president who would treat the will of
Congress, and the Constitution, with cavalier contempt.”

The Houston Chronicle branded Trump the real national

emergency.

Trump may become the first president in history to use

an emergency declaration to “undermine democracy —
on our very own soil. If he employs the National
Emergencies Act to get his wall, it would be to save face,
not to save lives,” the newspaper warned.

Such an action would be a “clear abuse of power that

should offend any patriotic, Constitution-loving
American. He would be using a special power reserved
for emergencies to settle a political score with
Democrats, to usurp Congressional power and to just
plain get his way,” the Chronicle charged.

The Chicago Tribune blasted Trump’s plan as an “act of

petulance.”

Trump’s “obsession with building a physical wall isn’t

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justified by facts on the ground. This is his political

preoccupation, not an existential crisis for the United
States,” the newspaper noted. If his declaration survives
court challenges, it will “undermine the Constitution,”
the editorial warned.

USA Today ripped Trump’s plan as “destructive

presidential overreach.”

Even The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial

page noted that the border wall situation appears more
accurately to be Trump’s “political emergency” rather
than any real danger in the country.

The president’s planned declaration of a national

emergency “looks to us like a misuse of the emergency
power delegated by Congress, which is meant for
genuine security crises — not to fulfill a campaign
promise,” the newspaper noted.

The New Yorker took a shot at the do-nothing GOP with

a headline on a piece by Susan B. Glasser: “The New
Republican Strategy for Dealing With the Emergency
That is Trump: Pray.”

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