“Sadly, we’ll be sued and sadly it will go through a process and happily we’ll win.” Trump acknowledged the high likelihood of a legal fight, and one that he would almost certainly lose in the lower courts. Executive action will divert around $2.5bn from the Pentagon’s drug interdiction programme and $600m from the treasury’s drug forfeiture fund. The White House said the national emergency would take about $3.6bn from the Pentagon’s military construction fund. The admission could complicate forthcoming legal battles if, as is widely expected, the declaration is challenged in court by states and others who stand to lose federal money or claim that Trump is abusing his authority. Hear him say it: “I *didn’t need* to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.” The Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, tweeted: “He admits it’s a #FakeTrumpEmergency. And the only reason we’re up here talking about this is because of the election, because they want to try and win an election which it looks like they’re not going to be able to do.” I’ve already done a lot of wall for the election: 2020. Trump went on: “I don’t have to do it for the election. I didn’t need to do this but I’d rather do it much faster.” I could do the wall over a longer period of time. Not $1! He’s not going to get $1! Well, I got $1.4bn, but I’m not happy with it … I want to do it faster. I got almost $1.4bn when I wasn’t supposed to get $1. He went on to recycle gory descriptions of violent criminal gangs and warned of a “virtual invasion” that requires urgent remedy.īut later, taking questions from reporters, he muddied the waters about his motives. Trump then asked two women whose family members had been killed, allegedly by undocumented immigrants, to stand and hold up photos of their late loved ones to assembled staff and media.
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