The former president has made clear once again that he believes the office should have absolute power
The D.C. Federal Court of Appeals is expected to hand down a decision on Donald Trump’s claim to “absolute” presidential immunity any day now, and the former president is upping his public pressure campaign for a favorable decision.
Early Thursday morning, Trump took to Truth Social to rant about the exemption he believes a president — or former president — should have from prosecution over crimes committed while in office. “EVEN EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE’ MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD,” Trump wrote.
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The former president argued that without total blanket immunity, the chief executive would be stripped of the “authority and decisiveness” necessary to carry out their duties in office. “Sometimes you just have to live with ‘great but slightly imperfect,’” he wrote in the all-caps post.
Make no mistake, even if he loses the popular vote, Trump is going to take getting reelected as some kind of mandate to act as a dictator and do whatever he wants with the full power of the US government and military behind him.
Democracy will not survive another 4 years of this increasingly unhinged husk of a moron.
So, Biden can just throw Trump in jail right now, or assassinate him? Cool, cool. Donny isn’t too bright, is he.
It’s not hard to make an argument that he is a threat to national security.
What line?
I don’t think there has been a line for a while.
The line is that only Trump can do anything with impunity. That same power doesn’t apply to Biden or future presidents.
I wonder if anybody has tried to explain to Trump that if he wins the argument that presidents have absolute power that Biden could immediately jail him and his entire family for no reason at all…
Clinton was also immune then right? He just got his sick ducked. Man those were much simpler times…
Clinton took advantage of an imbalance in power to get sexual favors from an intern while he was president of the United States.
An imbalance of power to that degree makes consent impossible.
Yes, the impeachment trial was political bullshit, but let’s not pretend what Clinton did was okay.
Mister “lock her up” sure has changed his tune…
Not that it’s surprising. He contradicts himself daily, and has done so for years.
So… Biden has immunity to do whatever he sees fit regarding the punishment befitting a traitor to America?
FUCK YEAH!
“Presidents should have complete immunity!”
“Biden should be brought to court for what he does!”
Sooooo… Which one is it?
“Aww, surely he didn’t mean it exactly like he said it. We must give him the benefit of the doubt since he is a rich and respectable person who wouldn’t say something like that.”
“No, please. Do not give me the benefit of the doubt. I mean it - I WILL literally kill you if I get elected again.”
“That could mean anything, surely he wouldn’t imply that he would kill us if he got elected. He must have misspoken or meant something else.”
