Trump threatens to invoke never-used constitutional authority to adjourn Congress and push nominees

Checks and balances have zero effect now. The solution was to impeach his conning ass, now we're stuck with a clown that's creating a circus.

 

I called this many times - he was going to seek emergency powers in some way, and will use this pandemic as a pretext to take more power

This man wants to be a dictator.

 

You forgot to put **BREAKING** in your title by the way

 

The issue is that a growing number of his cabinet have "Acting" under it and it's becoming a slow moving trainwreck full of radioactive waste and sewage. That limbo state is as troubling as the Con paranoia against "czars".

Turnabout is fair play since it's the same garbage McConnell pulled on Obama, but it's still gross to think this is normalized practice for any elected government to run on.

Even if you don't trust his cronies, you should at least agree on the idea of holding appointment hearings to reject/pass them rather than delay and do jack ****.

And yes, while I suspect Don and Mitch are planning this in concert to exploit the current crisis, I think the choice is either end the practice or call Don's bluff and let him be the first to do it.

Complaining about his threats is an overreaction and doesn't expose who is really to blame for the situation.

 

trump is insane. Literally. He is in the middle of a nervous breakdown, in my opinion, and he has a coterie of sycophants whispering in his ear what they think he wants to hear. A small group that, like trump, doesn't give a damn about the Constitution, the Congress, the people of this country. Like trump, they only care about themselves.

trump is a clear and present danger to the United States. That is perfectly obvious.

 

So how exactly do we go about invoking the 25th Amendment and have Pence take over until November?

 

In other words, Trump doesn't get any blame because his cabinet is a mess of his own doing. Am I reading this correctly? By the way, he's had 3 years now to fill tons of vacancies in his admin. And as if a freaking pandemic isn't enough of an issue (which ironically is what he is now using to try to assert more power), elections are just around the corner. Maybe we should follow McConnell's logic and let the next sitting president decide. No?

 

Perhaps if he didn't fire everyone he wouldn't have so many positions to fill.

 

Why is it always either A or B? Why not both?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=cabinet+appointment+slow&pp=1
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/09/5139...trump-cabinet-still-emptier-than-predecessors
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/17/us/politics/trump-appointments.html

 

I’m no fan of Mike Pence but I wish he was president right now. Even a hack like him would have the common sense to know he’s in deep water if he doesn’t at least pretend to lead. No doubt he’d still also want more judges filled but I think he’d know it’s better to get to a point where Congress can come back in session than it would be to try stupid crap like this.

 

Another distraction until the next “press conference”. The media/public falls for it every single day.

 

The sad thing is that he's not even trying to invoke it to fill major vacancies that would help during the crisis...he specifically mentioned the US Agency for Global Media because his feelings got hurt due to someone on "Voice of America" stating some negative things about him.

https://deadline.com/2020/04/coronavirus-donald-trump-voice-of-america-1202909463/

But as an example, Trump singled out the delay on one of his nominees, Michael Pack, a documentary filmmaker, who he nominated last fall to serve as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, formerly the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The agency oversees government-funded broadcast entities like Voice of America, which has long been one of the president’s targets. An ally of Steve Bannon, Pack has seen his nomination held up as Democrats worry about his influence over content.

Last week, the White House blasted VOA, accusing it of amplifying Chinese government propaganda, and at the press briefing, Trump called VOA’s reporting “disgusting.”

In the face of Trump administration criticism, Amanda Bennett, the director of VOA, issued a lengthy rebuttal on April 10, while noting that they operate under “firewall” to shield it from government interference.

“One of the big differences between publicly-funded independent media, like the Voice of America, and state-controlled media is that we are free to show all sides of an issue and are actually mandated to do so by law as stated in the VOA Charter signed by President Gerald Ford in 1976,” Bennett said. “We are thoroughly covering China’s dis-information and misinformation in English and Mandarin and at the same time reporting factually – as we always do in all 47 of our broadcast languages – on other events in China.”​

 

This. The Senate has had plenty of hearings for Trump appointments but Trump himself doesn't seem all that interested in having permanent appointees and said that he likes acting appointments. Also as noted a lot of these people are horribly unqualified. Often not knowing the basics of the field they are being appointed too.

Again many people said they wanted a President that would shake things up, go after the establishment and not do things like before. Well this is it.

 

Absolute power that takes no responsibility. Makes sense to me.