Too bad our conservative friends here on EO couldn't have done the same.
Bret Baier called out conservative hypocrisy over the president's comments.
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Done the same? You mean clutch our pearls and lose our partisan minds over what is essentially fake news spin over the first half of a sentence where the second half of the sentence never gets reported because that would put the pearl-clutching comment in context? Because we instead choose to look at things realistically in the same way Brit Hume does? Because we know that what Trump actually does is more important than his salesman bluster and we can recognize his exaggerations as exaggerations when we hear them?
We all know the Constitution makes it very clear the President does not have total authority, so what the President says doesn't make any difference. The only thing that matters is what he does.
We also know that under a declared National Emergency the President has a crap ton more authority, narrowly focused on the nature of the emergency, than the Constitution allows at face value, but we also know that the additional authority is still quite limited and is not total.
And, we also know, that if the President wanted total authority, or at least something that closely resembles it, he could declare martial law and have it.
But none of that is actually happening, is it?
OMG OMG OMG it might! It might happen!
Anybody else ever notice that the complaints about Trump are never about what he's actually done, but are instead about something he might maybe possibly could do in the future? No one can ever cite an example of something Trump has done to harm the country that can be measured in any manner other than with feelings.
Personally, I prefer to clutch my pearls and lose my mind over the glorious fake news that the relief checks will be delayed by weeks or even months because of the 15 seconds it takes to "alter the computer code" required in order to put Trump's name on the checks. Some outlets that refer to themselves as news are reporting that the electronic bank deposits could be delayed by weeks because of the delay in changing the computer code to get the President’s name on the paper checks (despite the fact that people started receiving bank deposits yesterday).
