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.
His America. The America that lets him and those like him get away with whatever they want. The America that, so far, they have mostly built up in their collective imagination.
He has poor concept of things other than him (it’s not projection when he accused people it’s his poor imagination stunting possibilities so he assumes people would do what he does, least it’s my theory as a random person so don’t take it for much), in his speeches change out when he says US or America to Trump and it makes perfect sense. ‘I’m over as we know if I can’t do crimes while in office’. Okay I know the whole quote wasn’t him but it’s pretty much what he’s been saying. Like Judge Dredd, I am the law, to Trump he IS America.
It’s truely baffling that he has support from anyone to me, like seeing someone slowly back into a car, they should be able to see it and you can see it, you yell to bring it to their attention but it still happens. Except in this case people only see a fantastic outcome when the car hits something like they all took shrooms and LSD.
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