Opinion: Trump rages as fresh signs of his weakness emerge
President Trump on Thursday. By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 15 at 10:12 AM There is probably no better way to demonstrate one’s manly strength and control than firing off a tweet in capital letters.
He argued that a vote against the emergency would be seen by GOP supporters as being against border security and the wall and would hurt their own political fortunes, according to a person with direct knowledge of some of the calls. The key point here is that Trump’s effort to make this vote all about “border security” failed. Republican senators objected to Trump’s national emergency declaration on separation-of-powers grounds: He used it to gain wall funding that Congress had just denied him. But over and over, Trump commanded them to see this as only about border security, and about him.
But there’s another plausible explanation for Trump’s rage about this vote: It’s rooted in the same impulse that leads him to keep claiming the wall is currently being built, when it isn’t.
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