President Donald Trump again threatened to declare a national emergency if he doesn’t get a wall to fix a made-up national security crisis occurring at the country’s southwestern border. Trump made the threat Thursday, 20 days into a partial shutdown of the government prompted by his demands for border wall funding. After a reporter asked Trump if his “only option left” was to declare a national emergency, he said it would be “the easy route.” “I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency, the lawyers have so advised me,” he said Thursday morning outside the White House. I will.” “But the easy route for me would be to call a national emergency and do it,” Trump added. “The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico,” Trump said Tuesday night in a televised speech.

Source: Huffington Post January 10, 2019 17:03 UTC