In a rambling speech from outside the White House in which he veered through topics as diverse as trade policy with China,his “much relationship” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, and his own prospects of winning a Nobel Peace Prize — as Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale reported, and via Twitter — Donald Trump on Friday declared a “national emergency” for the purposes of using government funds to construct a border wall that would seek to block off illegal passage between the United States and Mexico.
In the speech,per Dale’s account via Twitter, Trump claimed that because national emergencies bear been declared by presidents “many times before, and ” that “nobody cares” about another emergency declaration,and that there has “rarely been a problem” when presidents call national emergencies.
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Source: inquisitr.com