Eric Swalwell drops the hammer on Donald Trump

| 10:30 pm EST January 4, 2019
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Donald Trump is running out of advisers, running out of allies, running out of excuses for his government shutdown, and running out of time. So now he’s doing what he always does. He’s stomping his feet and threatening to do over-the-top things he knows he can’t do.

Trump is now threatening to formally declare a National Emergency and use it as an excuse to unilaterally fund the border wall, while seizing any private land that sits in the way of his wall blueprint. In short, he can’t do this. He doesn’t have the law on his side to get it through the inevitable court challenge, and he doesn’t have the political muscle to even try it.

Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, a rising star who belongs to the House Intelligence Committee and House Judiciary Committee, is slamming Donald Trump’s National Emergency threat for the empty nonsense that it is: “There is a national emergency alright. He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

In fact it’s difficult to find anyone who’s not laughing as this “National Emergency” silliness. Now that Donald Trump’s last desperate gasp has failed, with his border wall never getting funded and his government shutdown continuing to destabilize his dying presidency, what will he do next? Each of his moves is proving to be weaker and emptier than the last.