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.
Trump demands Biden to have complete presidential immunity for any acts against him
Tomorrow’s headline after Trump gets secreted away to a CIA prison: “Trump blacksited by Biden after promoting immunity for POTUS crimes. Irony lost on him.”
God, I am so hard right now.
No… Let them fight…
Flappy wrinkly Kaiju noises
I mean, Biden regularly exercises and Trump believes exercise is a waste of some limited magical internal life force. Pretty sure we’d know who would win in an actual fight.
Yes, Biden is wrinkle-swole and Trump is hamberder floppy. All Biden Kong has to do is run out Trumpzilla’s magical exercise battery.
I mean, let’s not kid ourselves here… they’re both decrepit old fucks. Trump just has a ~150lbs of extra weight slowing him down further
… Trumpzilla’s magical exercise battery.
Is that what he’s calling his penis these days?
No he literally believes everyone is born with a set amount of activity in them. Exercise expends that activity, so they’ll die sooner.
Cocaine and amphetamines, though: A-OK.
I get that. My question was facetious.
You misspelled phallic
Should we start calling AAA batteries that now?
I want stricter enforcement on anyone with power, not less. If you have the power to create and/or enforce the laws of the nation you should be held at a higher standard to uphold them.
This situation is just so crazy. We’ve had decades of the right wing frothing at the mouth against “big government” and “activist judges”. Now that their god-king is reaching for absolute power they flip a 180 so hard they fall all over themselves to demand that we have a king instead of a country By The People, For The People.
I know that conservatives don’t have morals or actually held beliefs: they have goals. Any time the world doesn’t jive with their goals they’ll take any position required to achieve the goal of the moment. I grew up with a right wing in the US that demanded liberty or death, but it seems that was all just a veneer over a goal to end democracy, topple the republic, and enshrine a king to rule over us all. The mask is off and a vote for Trump demonstrably makes you an enemy of the republic.
America has enshittified itself.
🌍👨🚀🔫🧑🚀
“Presidents should have complete immunity!”
“Biden should be brought to court for what he does!”
Sooooo… Which one is it?
Trump probably came up with this on the fly. And since there’s more intelligence in a 10L bucket of semen, both him and his followers thinks this is an awesome idea
So presidents can assassinate ex-presidents? I guess Joe knows what to do.
This country does supposedly protect democracy, and Joe claims Trump is an enemy of democracy. What the fuck is he waiting for?
Is he never going to suffer any kind of consequences for being so dirty and dishonest? As a non-American I’m really impressed by what is going on.
It’ll just drag on until he eventually succumbs to his decades-long suicide by cheeseburger.
Then the DOJ put out a statement exclaiming “ah shucks, we were like this close to a conviction. We’re just as frustrated as you are!”
Old American guy here. We’re not used to this sort of thing. All very new.
My wife is a Filipina my age. She doesn’t see the big deal. She’s seen some shit.
I’m assuming she lived through the martial law?
Trump just said Biden has immunity to jail him for no reason at all! Thanks Trump!
I thought Hunter was reason enough?
Biden death squads. Start with MAGA.
Let’s not forget that this bullshit actually killed at least one person.
Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as rioters tried to breach the House chamber. Kevin D. Greeson died of a heart attack, collapsing on the sidewalk west of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Rosanne Boyland appeared to have been crushed in a stampede of fellow rioters as they surged against the police. Benjamin Philips, the founder of a pro-Trump website called Trumparoo, died of a stroke.And
In the days and weeks after the riot, five police officers who had served at the Capitol on Jan. 6 died.
Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7. Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself after the attack. Officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police also died by suicide four days afterward.So who is responsible for the attack on January 6th?
This idiot is really arguing that someone should be able to assassinate him without any consequences. That is the legal argument he’s making.
I think he’s promoting a no holes bared, fight to the death presidential BATTLE ROYAL.
My money is on #39
*holds
No holes barred would be a different type of wrasslin’.
Ugh lol
Really? I always bar my holes, just in case.
I think Obama would be the favorite to win
On paper, maybe. But I reckon Carter’s street smarts beat Obama’s book smarts.
Considering at 62 he’s still 15 years younger than the next youngest living president (GWB) current or otherwise, I’d have to agree with you.
that hasn’t occurred to him yet. but he plans on being america’s last president
“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.”
The issue is, Trump never means what he says. Lying is like breathing for him. So no one should believe what he literally says. He can’t actually follow through on a plan to do anything, even if he wants to.
You should believe that he wants to do what he says though. He may accidentally do something worse and not fix it. Like the trade war with China that accomplished nothing. Or the millions of unnecessary pandemic deaths. Trump isn’t dangerous because of what he will do, but because of what other people will do while he fails to act in the interests of the country.
Remember that time he ordered the assassination of an Iranian commander, on Iraqi (allied) soil, while that commander was there attending a peace conference with Iraq?
“… YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD”
Based on this, why should anybody ever be charged with crimes? We should all be granted total immunity from any crimes ever committed, since potentially years of trauma could result from investigating anything that’s done. We should just let bygones be bygones. Like that homeless guy that was killed in a hit&run incident on Sept 17th, 2006 at 12:31am, by some drunk driver who was never caught. We just need to move on guys, things happen, it’s over and done with. Investigating that would just lead to years of trauma trying to determine good from bad.
“I should be able to get away with the things I swear I didn’t do”
Every assertion is a confession.
“I crossed the line, don’t hold me accountable”.
No. Everyone is equal under the law. Must be.
I don’t understand how this is even in play. I thought the point of immunity was to prevent active members of government being arrested or prevented from doing their duty by minor or spurious charges while in office. The example was a congressman being pulled over on his way to an important vote. Trump doesn’t have any duties anymore. The nation doesn’t give a shit if he’s in court or prison or whatever, so why should he be immune to anything? Now seems the perfect time to find out exactly what he’s done.
He doesn’t have a lot of other directions to go. He can just ignore paying people money for all the cases hes lost so far, but he can’t ignore getting sent to prison. He’s got to play this hand to delay and try to get back in office. Self-pardons, lock up his accusers and anyone else he sees as a threat. Turn the presidency into an actual dictatorship.
He was quoted many times saying how he liked how Putin and Kim and UN had their absolute power lined up.
I don’t understand how this is even in play.
Me neither. Even active presidents only have immunity in very limited circumstances. 30-40 years ago this claim would have been brushed off immediately as utterly ridiculous. That anybody would spend 1 second considering this as a real claim shows how our legal system has degenerated.
Even active presidents only have immunity in very limited circumstances.
Nope. This has never been tested in the courts. And here we are.
So, by this logic, Biden could have Trump imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for life, Bonaparte style.
