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15 Aug 2018, 9:07 am

Trump Claims Power to Bypass Limits Set by Congress in Defense Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/p ... ments.html

WASHINGTON — When President Trump signed a $716 billion military spending bill on Monday, he claimed the authority to override dozens of provisions that he deemed improper constraints on his executive powers.

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In a signing statement that the White House quietly issued after 9 p.m. on Monday — about six hours after Mr. Trump signed the bill in a televised ceremony at Fort Drum in New York — Mr. Trump deemed about 50 of its statutes to be unconstitutional intrusions on his presidential powers, meaning that the executive branch need not enforce or obey them as written.

Among them was a ban on spending military funds on “any activity that recognizes the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea,” the Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow in 2014 in an incursion considered illegal by the United States. He said he would treat the provision and similar ones as “consistent with the president’s exclusive constitutional authorities as commander in chief and as the sole representative of the nation in foreign affairs.”


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15 Aug 2018, 9:09 am

Mr. Trump either does not know what he is talking about, or he's under the mistaken belief that his word is law.

Likely both.


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16 Aug 2018, 9:14 am

Trying to literally bypass a law limiting executive powers is next to nothing more than a dictator.


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16 Aug 2018, 9:19 am

kazanscube wrote:
Trying to literally bypass a law limiting executive powers is next to nothing more than a dictator.


They said that in Bush's time. Trump has a bit more about him. Leave him to it.



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16 Aug 2018, 9:38 am

Tequila wrote:
kazanscube wrote:
Trying to literally bypass a law limiting executive powers is next to nothing more than a dictator.


They said that in Bush's time. Trump has a bit more about him. Leave him to it.


Literally most of the people in the world and in the country hate the orange ogre. Also loonatics love that he’s a wrecking ball... wait...



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16 Aug 2018, 9:41 am

Spooky_Mulder wrote:
Literally most of the people in the world and in the country hate the orange ogre. Also loonatics love that he’s a wrecking ball... wait...


I can't help but burst out in fits of laughter. He pisses off all the right people. Good.



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16 Aug 2018, 9:43 am

Tequila wrote:
Spooky_Mulder wrote:
Literally most of the people in the world and in the country hate the orange ogre. Also loonatics love that he’s a wrecking ball... wait...


I can't help but burst out in fits of laughter. He pisses off all the right people. Good.


Anarchy is a child’s game, most grow out of it for a reason.

It’s impossible to take anarchists even remotely serious. Even less serious than the far right who are laughable as well. But having no beliefs and just wanting chaos? That reveals a low self esteem.