{"id":35511,"date":"2019-02-16T22:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35511"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:51:48","slug":"national-emergency-what-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35511","title":{"rendered":"National emergency? What national emergency?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/finish-the-wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35490\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/finish-the-wall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/finish-the-wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/finish-the-wall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/finish-the-wall-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/finish-the-wall.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Reich is a vocal critic of the president of the United States. I mean, he served as labor secretary in the Clinton administration. His progressive credentials are established.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote this on Facebook today in response to Donald Trump&#8217;s declaration of a phony &#8220;national emergency&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>Just hours after Trump declared a national emergency to secure funding for his nonsensical border wall without congressional approval, he jetted off to Mar-a-Lago for a weekend of golf and relaxation. Excuse me, but shouldn&#8217;t the president be in the White House during a national emergency?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The truth is there is no emergency. Border crossings are at historic lows, immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans, and a wall would do little to curb the flow of illegal drugs. This entire crisis is designed solely to score points with Trump&#8217;s political base and consolidate his own power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What Reich neglected to mention in this message &#8212; although I am certain it wasn&#8217;t lost on him &#8212; was that Trump himself actually dismissed the &#8220;national emergency&#8221; in a rambling, incoherent &#8220;press availability&#8221; on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Trump knows there&#8217;s no &#8220;emergency&#8221; on the border. He made the declaration, it seems to me, because he wanted to create a pretext to erect something to which he can attach his name.<\/p>\n<p>OK, then. Let&#8217;s call it The Trump Wall.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all his. He can have it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich is a vocal critic of the president of the United States. 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