Trump's Real Emergency: Democrats Are Winning and He's in Deep Trouble
Raw Story
February 15, 2019
Now that President Trump is declaring a national emergency to build a border wall, one question should be on the lips of every journalist, pundit and politician talking about this issue:
if this is a real emergency, why did Trump wait more than two years to do something about it?
The New York Times frames the border wall story as "a war of attrition," but while there's certainly been an escalation of debate in the past few months, that's misleading.
In truth, Trump has been making false claims on the dire situation on the border that required a wall for years now.
He even kicked off his presidential campaign in 2015 with an infamous diatribe painting Mexicans as "rapists" who are "bringing drugs" and "bringing crime."
By early 2016, "Build the Wall" was a chant for the Trump voter base, and he rode this false, racist narrative about immigration and the border all the way to the White House.
After Trump took office in 2017, however, his claims that there was an emergency at the border were immediately belied by his actual behavior.
Instead, he spent two years playing golf and tweeting and making no real effort to get the wall built, despite having Republicans in control of both houses of Congress and numerous opportunities to pass measures to fund the wall.
So what changed?
Why has it not been an "emergency" for the past two years, but suddenly became one now?
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trumps-real-emergency-democrats-winning-hes-deep-trouble/