The conservative group Republican politicians for the Rule of Law (RRL) has actually created an ad slamming President Donald Trump’s current assertion that he alone has outright authority to require guvs to re-open their state’s companies shuttered throughout the coronavirus epidemic.
The ad’s tagline: “You’re a president, not a king.”
The ad, which will air on Fox & Buddies on Friday in Washington, D.C. and be promoted throughout digital platforms, starts by specifying, “Donald Trump believes he is a king,” as an explosion exposes a pointed golden crown upon his head.
The video then shows footage from Trump’s April 13 White House coronavirus briefing in which he said, “When somebody’s the President of the United States, the authority is total.”
” As Americans sacrifice to fight the worst health crisis in a century,” the ad’s storyteller continues, “our governors and local leaders are taking decisive action to safeguard their communities and reopen the economy safely. Now President Trump believes he has absolute power to inform states what to do.”
The advertisement then includes video of CBS News correspondent Paula Reid asking Trump on April 14, “Has any governor agreed that you have the authority to choose when their state opens back up?”
The rest of the advertisement shows footage from numerous parts of the rundown in which Trump said, “The President of the United States has the authority to do what the President of the United States has the authority to do which is very powerful. The President of the United States calls the shots … The authority is overall.”
” No Mr. President,” the ad concludes. “You do not have overall authority. You’re a president, not a king,” the narrator states as the CGI crown upon Trump’s head disappears in a flash of smoke.
The 10 th Modification of the Constitution provides U.S. specifies the right to govern themselves outside of any congressional or presidential powers particularly discussed in other places in the Constitution.
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When officials like President Trump get out of line, it is essential that we call them on it. It is not an exaggeration to say that the very first steps towards a dictatorship are unfounded assertions of power just like President Trump’s,” Chris Truax, spokesperson for RRL, composed in a statement emailed to Newsweek.
” It’s unreasonable for the President to demand brand-new powers to deal with the crisis after he invested almost 2 months declining to utilize the powers that he does have and firmly insisting that no action was necessary,” Truax composed.
RRL was produced in 2019 by the conservative political group Safeguarding Democracy Together. Both groups say that Trump has actually broken the founding national principle that a country’s leader should abide by the law.
” Every time one part of the government– Congress, the courts, the states– tries to hold President Trump accountable, he informs them he’s only liable to another part of the government,” the RRL site states.
As proof, the Safeguarding Democracy Together website points out Trump’s rejection to offer evidence during the Congressional impeachment procedure, his Justice Department’s claims that the courts do not have judicial authority to limit his actions and his surrogates’ claims that he has the executive authority to close down any investigations and legally pardon himself and his partners for any behaviors.
RRL has launched a number of advertisements over the previous year raising concerns about Trump’s leadership and advising Congressional Republican politicians to hold Trump to Constitutional concepts.
