This is
• real
• not normal
• not okay.
Donald Trump: “Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
FACT CHECK: False.
The president was speaking on Tuesday to the Turning Point USA event audience.
Article 2 of the United States Constitution does not, in fact, grant the president any such power.
Video from Vox media journalist Aaron Rupar.
TRUMP: "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."
(Article 2 does not in fact empower the president to do whatever they want.) pic.twitter.com/qIFP1AbHw6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2019
