'I didn't need to do this': Dems pounce on Trump's national emergency admission

President Donald Trump handed congressional Democrats their opening salvo in the upcoming legal and legislative battles to stymie his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.

“I want to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time,” Trump said on Friday of his intention to issue the declaration. “I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster.”

Those impromptu statements by the president — delivered during a sprawling news conference in the White House Rose Garden without the assistance of a teleprompter — have in less than 24 hours become Exhibit A in Democratic lawmakers’ arguments against what they view as unconstitutional overreach of executive powers by the Trump administration.

“He admits it's a #FakeTrumpEmergency,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote on Twitter. “Hear him say it: "I *didn’t need* to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster."

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