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THINGS A US PRESIDENT CAN DO DURING A CRISIS
1. Regulate all commerce and business transactions - Under the Trading Act of 1917, the President is allowed to regulate all the finances of the United States, including all international transactions...and yes - all without Congress.
1. Regulate all commerce and business transactions - Under the Trading Act of 1917, the President is allowed to regulate all the finances of the United States, including all international transactions...and yes - all without Congress.
2. Under the same 1917 Act of Congress, the President has the authority to take all privately-owned gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates (paper contracts). The last time this was used was in 1933 by FDR to mitigate the effects of the Great Depression. The private...
ownership of gold was temporarily suspended. Citizens were paid per ounce for the value of their holdings, and for the cost of transportation as they were required to surrender the gold to the Federal Reserve Bank within three days of the Presidential order.
3. Take Control of all media in the United States - Under the communications act of 1934, the President can establish the Office of Telecommunications Management, which oversees all media and telecommunications, regardless of advances in technology. President Kennedy did...
this via executive order 10995 in 1962.
4. Take Control of All Resources and Manpower - President Kennedy also signed executive orders allowing for the seizure of electric power fuels and minerals, roads, highways, ports, sea lanes, waterways, railroads, and the private...
4. Take Control of All Resources and Manpower - President Kennedy also signed executive orders allowing for the seizure of electric power fuels and minerals, roads, highways, ports, sea lanes, waterways, railroads, and the private...
vehicles on those thoroughways. Under further executive orders, he allowed for the executive office of the President to conscript Citizens as laborers, seize health and educational facilities, airports and aircraft. These are continued in executive orders...
10997, 10999, 11000, 11001, 11002, 11003, 11004 and 11005.
5. Deploy the Military Inside the United States - While American Governors can offer their National Guard resources to the President without being ordered to do so, as they do in the case of monitoring the...
5. Deploy the Military Inside the United States - While American Governors can offer their National Guard resources to the President without being ordered to do so, as they do in the case of monitoring the...
southern border with Mexico, the use of Active duty troops inside the United States is forbidden under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878...UNLESS there is an emergency. The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows for the President to use troops to put down insurrections or...
rebellions within the United States. After hurricane Katrina, however, the Insurrection Act was amended to allow the President to use federal troops to enforce the law, a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Every US Governor was against this change...
6. Suspend the Government of the United States - A Presidential directive signed into law by George W. Bush on 9 May 2007, gives the President of the United States the authority to take over all government functions and all private sector activities in the event of...
a "catastrophic emergency". The idea behind this is to ensure the survival of the Republican form of government after such an event occurs and that we will come out the other end with an "enduring Constitutional Government." This piece of legislation is called, "Directive 51."
Add to all of this, the several current national emergencies that are in place....and Donald J. Trump has immense wherewithal to do things he would not normally be able to do. Next time someone questions the integrity of our President, you can remind them of this thread.
