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.
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.
Totally cool for our bro Donnie to start an insurrection then, and totally get away with it all, immunity and all.
False dilemmas are dangerous. Don’t fall prey to all-or-nothing, with-us-or-against-us tribalism.
Clinton did a bad thing. Trump also did a bad thing, and directly threatens the stability of our society. Both can be bad while one can still be worse.