The former president — who is facing a mountain of legal woes — is trying to win back the White House on the idea that he should be above the law
Donald Trump isn’t happy that judges on a Washington, D.C., appeals court ruled that he’s not protected from prosecution in the Justice Department’s election interference case against him. The former president has long been claiming he should be immune from criminal repercussions for anything he did while in office — including conspiring to overturn the democratic process — and on Wednesday he posted to Truth Social that a president’s job is so contingent on their ability to commit crimes that it would mark the “end” of “our Country, as we know it,” if they are not afforded that right.
“If a President does not have Immunity, the Opposing Party, during his/her term in Office, can extort and blackmail the President by saying that, ‘if you don’t give us everything we want, we will Indict you for things you did while in Office,’ even if everything done was totally Legal and Appropriate,” Trump wrote, adding that “Obama, Bush, and soon, Crooked Joe Biden, would all be in PRISON. Protect Presidential Immunity. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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There’s no evidence that Bush, Obama, or Biden committed crimes while in office, but Trump is under heavy legal scrutiny for an array of potential crimes — most of them tied to his effort to remain in office despite losing to Biden. Trump tried to get the Justice Department’s case against him thrown out last year, alleging he could do no wrong because he was the president. Judge Tanya Chutkan shot down the bid, and Trump appealed, sending the case to the D.C. appeals court. In a hearing last month, Trump’s lawyers argued that immunity should go so far as to protect a president from prosecution even if they were to order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.
In Donald Trump’s America, a President simply can’t do his job properly without breaking the law. Think about that! What did he do during his term that we simply don’t know about?
For all of Joe Biden’s flaws, I am pretty confident that he is not doing illegal things on a daily basis, and doesn’t need this blanket immunity.
We need to investigate his son Hunter getting a security clearance when he should not have been eligible, and also 2 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia.
Wait that was Jared kushner? Nevermind nothing to see here.
Not gonna lie you got me on the first half lol
Yeah, haha - but seriously though, we have to look at Hunter using his proximity to the president to get China to approve his side business trademarks in exchange for-
Wait, sorry, that’s Ivanka. Nevermind.
Yeah it’s a known perk of being POTUS that your offspring get cushy job offers… Not saying it’s right, but it’s not illegal as far as I know.
Definitely sold secrets. Either for money or compliments.
Didn’t his kids receive like a billions bucks from Saudi Arabia right after he left office? I thought the assumption was they just sold boxes of classified documents.
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Thanks. That makes more sense. I think selling the Saudis info about dissidents was definitely espionage and am wondering why he isn’t in prison.
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$3 Billion, specifically. And I don’t remember the time frame in relation, but a bunch of American spies wound up dead as well.
Wow. So espionage as well. How did our government not find enough evidence to bury them? The trump kids are fucking morons.
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Or if he is, they’re “normal” presidential illegal things like ordering CIA black ops or whatever, not abusing the position to gain personal fortune and autocratic power like Trump does.
To be fair, and to paraphrase The Big Lebowski: He’s not wrong - he’s just an asshole.
In most representative democracies the head of state and head of government are two distinct offices for precisely this reason.
No, you can be President and not break the law.
I suspect Biden is doing illegal things most days.
Big difference is Biden is under the umbrella of presidency, and probably under good advice from his advisors.
Trump is out for himself, and believes America and the presidential powers are there to serve him
Like what? You can’t just keep us all hanging like that!
I hear he once removed a tag from a mattress
keeping unsubstantiated suspicions to oneself is a mark of character. if you wanted unscrupulous speculation, you might look to someone like rachel maddow or keith olberman.