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.
It’s upsetting to me that rich people posting in call caps about how they should be allowed to commit crimes resonates with me ANY Americans, never mind enough of your voting population that Donald Trump has a decent chance of winning the next election.
I mean every country has morons, but Jesus what is going on in your country man?
The list goes on, but take your pick or mix and match; there’s really no wrong answer. 🫠
Man my dad a Vietnam vet… Told me that jan6 was a shame and that they killed “that poor woman” trying to get through a door.
I was like… Dafuq? What about protecting elected officials lives? What about protecting the constitution? What about that whole “foreign and domestic” deal?
I told him… I watched the live stream video of her being given a warning and a lawful order to stop and to remove herself from the area. She didn’t. She got shot.
She wasn’t a patriot… she was a criminal who fucked around and found out.
Anything telling you otherwise is propaganda.
Crazy the spin they are trying to put on Jan6. :/
This is what a lot of people think, but the reality is it’s because a large portion of our society measures their own (and other’s) worth and happiness using money. This includes a big chunk of our educated class
Those members of our society have no capacity to build deep and authentic bonds (especially the men). Creating a silent epidemic of loneliness with resent-fueled victims searching for someone to blame for their misery & miniscule self-worth.
Trump only has, perhaps, 20% of the population truly behind him. He gets 46% or so of voters in his favor through a combination of Republicans who hate Democrats more than they hate Trump, and Enlightened Centrists who vote for the GOP because they voted for Democrats last time. Those are rooted in the problem of a voting system that only makes room for two parties.
Even that wouldn’t be enough, except for the criminally stupid electoral college system.
In short, he doesn’t have real support, and he only gets in by exploiting flaws in American democracy that have always been there but nobody has abused to quite this scale. Incidentally, exploiting flaws in democracy is also how Hitler took over Germany. His true base of support was never very large, either.