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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,185 posts)
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 08:06 PM Apr 2020

Cuomo Says He 'Won't Engage' Trump, Then Offers a History Lesson

Donald Trump is wrong on constitutional grounds when he says he has final say on plans to resume normal life in the states, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. But, he said, “the president will have no fight with me.”

“I will not engage in it,” Cuomo said Tuesday at his daily virus briefing, after the leaders traded barbs earlier over Trump’s statement Monday claiming “the ultimate authority.”

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During Monday’s White House news conference, Trump declared that “when somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total” and said the White House would provide a legal justification for that assertion.

At Tuesday’s news conference, Cuomo offered a history lesson. “This was the first battle: Do we want a king or do we want a president?” Cuomo said.

He went on to quote founder Alexander Hamilton, who wrote that, “The state governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the national government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cuomo-says-he-wont-engage-trump-then-offers-a-history-lesson/ar-BB12CvzP?li=BBnbcA1

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Cuomo Says He 'Won't Engage' Trump, Then Offers a History Lesson (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Oh Shitstain will see this as a challenge SheltieLover Apr 2020 #1
Do Trump and supporters vouch that this power also applies to future dem Presidents? keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #2
Future? tavernier Apr 2020 #4
K&R for visibility. crickets Apr 2020 #3
Yay.. Andrew's History Lesson! Cha Apr 2020 #5

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
1. Oh Shitstain will see this as a challenge
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 08:16 PM
Apr 2020

& be tweeting up a shitstorm.

Does he really want to play with the big boys?

keithbvadu2

(36,896 posts)
2. Do Trump and supporters vouch that this power also applies to future dem Presidents?
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 11:02 PM
Apr 2020

Do Trump and supporters vouch that this power also applies to future dem Presidents?

No wishy washy...

Yes or no?

tavernier

(12,399 posts)
4. Future?
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 11:25 PM
Apr 2020

He is the healthiest specimen of mankind that ever walked the face of the earth and will forever be the king of America.

Cha

(297,615 posts)
5. Yay.. Andrew's History Lesson!
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 11:32 PM
Apr 2020
He went on to quote founder Alexander Hamilton, who wrote that, “The state governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the national government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments.

Put that in yer crack pipe and suck on it, wanna be dictator
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