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.

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.

  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    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.

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    10 months ago

    “Presidents should have complete immunity!”

    “Biden should be brought to court for what he does!”

    Sooooo… Which one is it?

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    10 months ago

    IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD

    Because it worked so well when we decided to skip over all that “good from bad” determination after the Civil War.

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      10 months ago

      Look who’s to say who was wrong in that situation or any situation. Morality doesn’t exist. Move on.

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      Unless something bad happens to me.

  • 𝔇𝔦𝔬@lemy.lol
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    10 months ago

    Well, if you believe this, you should have faith that sleepy Joe has a chance at immunity once he leaves office.

    🍿

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    10 months ago

    I guess he will never be able to arrest Biden for anything, no matter what he may do.

    Hear that Biden? Trump gave you permission to just shoot him dead because you have immunity and can’t be arrested for it as long as you do it while.president.

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      10 months ago

      I bet if Biden did shoot orange man, this type of presidential immunity would disappear.

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      10 months ago

      Wait until it is granted for some reason, then he gets elected. I am sure no one on the right sees this sequence of events as a problem…

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    10 months ago

    Make no mistake, even if he loses the popular vote, Trump is going to take getting reelected as some kind of mandate to act as a dictator and do whatever he wants with the full power of the US government and military behind him.

    Democracy will not survive another 4 years of this increasingly unhinged husk of a moron.

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    10 months ago

    So… Biden has immunity to do whatever he sees fit regarding the punishment befitting a traitor to America?

    FUCK YEAH!