Maggie Haberman Calls BS on Trump for Declaring Emergencies to Grab Power

Tommy Christopher Aug 14th, 2025, 12:29 pm

White House correspondent Maggie Haberman called out President Donald Trump for using national emergencies to “grab” power when no emergency seems to exist.

Trump held a press conference Monday to announce the deployment of National Guard troops in D.C. — and floated the idea of spreading that approach across the country. The president has already used “national emergencies” to claim trade and deportation powers.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins , anchor Kaitlan Collins and Haberman discussed the issue, and Haberman noted Trump’s habit of declaring “some kind of a national emergency in play, when a lot of evi

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