This is Trump's WMD address...

[1democracy]

To convince the country that he needs to use emergency powers if someone doesn't give him the wall!

Unfortunately he will be using the same old lies, no fact checking by speech-writers, etc.

Next time he could be saying he'd use emergency powers to build a wall on our northern boundary, or to block press freedom, or put his opponents in jail,...think of all the nasty things he could do!

This is the moment when he tries to go full authoritarian!

[still_one]

1. Big difference this time. The Demcrats are not going along with it, and they have the facts to back

up why trump is lying about this

[1democracy]

2. apparently it doesn't matter...

He doesn't need approval from Congress. According to a person from the Brennan Center, the rules/laws about emergency power need to be reformed.

As we all know, leaders will stage fake emergencies to seize the powers they want. See this article, excerpt below, to see the danger
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/

"The moment the president declares a “national emergency”—a decision that is entirely within his discretion—more than 100 special provisions become available to him. While many of these tee up reasonable responses to genuine emergencies, some appear dangerously suited to a leader bent on amassing or retaining power. For instance, the president can, with the flick of his pen, activate laws allowing him to shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the United States or freeze Americans’ bank accounts. Other powers are available even without a declaration of emergency, including laws that allow the president to deploy troops inside the country to subdue domestic unrest.

This edifice of extraordinary powers has historically rested on the assumption that the president will act in the country’s best interest when using them. With a handful of noteworthy exceptions, this assumption has held up. But what if a president, backed into a corner and facing electoral defeat or impeachment, were to declare an emergency for the sake of holding on to power? In that scenario, our laws and institutions might not save us from a presidential power grab. They might be what takes us down."

[still_one]

3. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the president can allocate money. That is up to

Congress

This will be decided by the courts