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Some conservatives admit Trump’s emergency declaration will allow future action on climate change or gun violence
research February 14, 2019 6:15 PM EST
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On February 14, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that President Donald Trump will “sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action – including a national emergency” to build a wall on the southern border.
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Fox host: “Let’s dismiss this idea that declaring a national emergency is a big deal. We do it all the time”
video February 14, 2019 5:36 PM EST
“Calling it a national emergency is a bit overstating it” Fox News is Murdoch Media
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Right-wing media figures line up to defend Elliott Abrams, a Trump appointee complicit in crimes in Latin America
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Abrams was a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan administration’s secret funding of right-wing rebel groups and anti-communist death squads known as “Contras” in Nicaragua via revenue from illegal arms sales to Iran. Abrams was convicted of withholding information from Congress “about secret government efforts to support the Nicaraguan contra rebels during a ban on such aid,” though he was eventually pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.
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“Why Should we believe anything You Say?” How Ilhan Omar Nailed Elliot Abrams for Iran-Contra Lies
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