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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 3956052" data-attributes="member: 48469">Oops. LOL<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/02/16/border-emergency-donald-trump-quote-undercuts-move-critics-says/2881619002/" target="_blank">&#039;I didn&#039;t need to do this.&#039; Critics say Trump quote undercuts national emergency for border wall</a>&quot;Thirty minutes into an off-the-cuff defense of his decision to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/15/trump-national-emergency-border-wall/2880489002/" target="_blank">declare a national emergency to help build his border wall</a>, President Donald Trump made an admission that may have handed ammunition to legal opponents of the move. Trump, who has long described the situation on the Southwest border as a &quot;crisis&quot; and an &quot;invasion,&quot; appeared to suggest his administration had all the time it needed to build the hundreds of miles of border barrier he has demanded for months. &quot;I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn&#039;t need to do this,&quot; Trump told reporters gathered in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, shortly before he signed a proclamation declaring the emergency. &quot;But I&#039;d rather do it much faster.&quot;Trump’s opponents, including <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/14/donald-trump-emergency-border-wall-long-legal-fight/2548526002/" target="_blank">a number of groups and officials suing the administration over the national emergency</a>, pounced on the president&#039;s candid remarks and said they appeared to undermine his claims of an urgent problem on the southern border.George Conway, an attorney and frequent Trump critic who is married to longtime Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, summed up the reaction in a post on Twitter: &quot;This quote should be the first sentence of the first paragraph of every [lawsuit] filed.&quot;[MEDIA=twitter]1096443586713919489[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 3956052, member: 48469"] Oops. LOL [URL="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/02/16/border-emergency-donald-trump-quote-undercuts-move-critics-says/2881619002/"]'I didn't need to do this.' Critics say Trump quote undercuts national emergency for border wall[/URL] "Thirty minutes into an off-the-cuff defense of his decision to [URL='https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/15/trump-national-emergency-border-wall/2880489002/']declare a national emergency to help build his border wall[/URL], President Donald Trump made an admission that may have handed ammunition to legal opponents of the move. Trump, who has long described the situation on the Southwest border as a "crisis" and an "invasion," appeared to suggest his administration had all the time it needed to build the hundreds of miles of border barrier he has demanded for months. "I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this," Trump told reporters gathered in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, shortly before he signed a proclamation declaring the emergency. "But I'd rather do it much faster." Trump’s opponents, including [URL='https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/14/donald-trump-emergency-border-wall-long-legal-fight/2548526002/']a number of groups and officials suing the administration over the national emergency[/URL], pounced on the president's candid remarks and said they appeared to undermine his claims of an urgent problem on the southern border. George Conway, an attorney and frequent Trump critic who is married to longtime Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, summed up the reaction in a post on Twitter: "This quote should be the first sentence of the first paragraph of every [lawsuit] filed." [MEDIA=twitter]1096443586713919489[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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