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But why tho.
Because he has noticed that courts seem to be giving the President deference for things needed for "national security", so he thinks those are magic words that will make accountability go away.
It's working far too often.
Is he wrong?
Even from the "national security" standpoint, doesn't a predefined sniper's nest kind of defeat the point?
Not if the point is lethal surveillance of those coming and going in DC.
The fear they instill is part of the package.
I was already assuming that everything around the white House is covered by snipers anyway.
Yes, but pretty soon it's going to be the whole country.
Same reason he's pretending to build military facilities under the ballroom: it's just a pretense to be allowed to build what he wants.
Otherwise it's just a dictator's vanity project with zero justification for the wasted taxpayer's money, and the courts can shut it down. But when there's military-anything involved, it becomes a defense project.
Pretending?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aSwN-q3QSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6AhkeIJJSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU4Q7SRr3do
Because they expect a civil war, or some sort of massive uprising. And I'm not naive, I don't expect this to be some glorious, organized revolution of the shining proletariat. It will be chaotic, disjointed, and without goal (at least at first). Whether it'll be armed or not, peaceful or not (at least to start with), doesn't matter. They know DC will be a hot zone.
The same reason he's building a nuclear proof bunker. The same reason he released, and has normalized, the national guard around DC. Whether he knows this, or his handlers, I don't really think it matters. They know that something will break eventually. Yes, I know we all call out Americans' apathy and make doomer jokes about them never rising up. But there IS another great depression coming (not recession, depression), gas will almost certainly go past $6 or $7 a gallon nationwide, food will become completely unaffordable, I suspect over 40% of people will be unemployed. And unlike the first Great Depression, we have mass surveillance, AI, a world MUCH MUCH more dependent on central supply chains, and so much more shit.
They know something is coming. Yes, USians suck and are so fucking apathetic, but that will crack eventually.