Sunday, August 23, 2020

How to Abuse Presidential Power

The power of a President is enormous.  Trump has managed to even bypass Congressional approvals for all the Bills he signs constantly. They call it those Presidency Emergency Action Documents. So in turn he creates chaos and in just three years has declared seven National Emergencies. No other President has ever used this little known way to avoid our Constitution. Most of our Presidents were lawyers who learned our laws and Constitution and respected our founding father's intentions. Not this guy. He values the total Dictatorships of Communist countries leaders and surely wants to be just like them including being President for life. 

These secret powers originated in the Eisenhower years in order to protect America from a Cuban Soviet attack. The Bills are not even offered up to Congressional approvals because they are immediately labeled Classified and hidden somewhere. Trump has many Classified documents that no one gets to see. It is unbelievable Presidential privacy when you consider that even the most highly classified military and intelligence operations have to be reported to at least eight members of Congress. When you have a evil President who abuses this secret power he can also impose martial law if he chooses to. That is the use of direct military control over normal civil functions. He has used this power to impose troops abusing peaceful protestors and now threatens to use it again at voting places. 

In a declaration of a National Emergency he can authorize the apprehension and detention of certain persons. This is right out of a Dictatorship's playbook and he can do it by just signing a proclamation as Trump does often. He declared fake emergencies against Muslims , the wall and wants to try to delay the election over some contrived emergency. Is this why he allows Covid to be spread everywhere? Why he is closing and defunding the postal service?  The Department of Justice periodically reviews these Presidency Emergency Action Documents but with Barr, Trump has the guy in charge in his wheel house allowing him to do just about anything he wants despite that he is supposed to be the  independent  highest law man in the country. 

Our founding fathers created the Presidency so that we had someone in this country to act quickly but they never imagined that America would vote in someone who has never governed anything in his life with no knowledge of the Constitution who does not take any advice from advisors who appoints to every important job other friends and family also totally unequipped to govern fairly. We want a President to respond to attacks, hurricanes and forest fires quickly but we don't want a President to impose habeas corpus, the imprisonment of citizens at his choosing in illegal confinement. These Presidential decisions should GO PUBLIC AND NOT BE CONFIDENTIAL. Every citizen has the right to know what the hell is going on. Will Trump extend his power to even suspend our Constitution? He MUST be voted OUT.

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