I want to write a think piece about how the thirst for presidential immunity is part of a larger authoritarian sentiment leading to things like qualified immunity and thin blue line mentality and this mf just tweets it out
This asshole demanded Obama be prosecuted for “spying on his campaign.”
So not only does he believe (some) Presidents should be held criminally accountable but also for things they did not do.
OK, it's early here and I may not be awake yet. Is it only Republican presidents that require immunity?
Nixon - Watergate et al, pardoned.
Regan - Iran-Contra et al, never charged
Bush - Iran-Contra et al co-conspirator, never charged
Bush II - Monitoring calls + Iraq, never charged.
Trump
I feel like we've had close to 45 presidents that were able to properly function without fear of indictment after their term(s) ended. Not sure what the complaint is about.
So he's back on Twitter? That's good, in a way: his own tweets were always the best indictments against him. Somebody keep records, cuz I ain't going back there.
We have to live with the occasional embezzling cop with a side hustle doing murder for hire, otherwise we can't have strong and effective crime. Prevention.
What he’s ranting about makes zero sense. They have to follow rules and procedures set up by laws and precedent. That’s what makes us a stable and great country .
While it is fine to say Trump is crazy, it isn't like this isn't a long standing conservative viewpoint! He just shouts the shit they publish in journal/essay form.
At least I'm sure he and his fans would be intellectually consistent and apply this same logic to democratic presidents. Anyway, off to go buy a bridge!
Gerald Ford, for all his nice guy bona fides, really screwed America when he decided that it would be too painful to make a president who committed crimes pay for his actions.
If he gets total immunity, Biden should just seat 12 more Supreme Court Justices. Illegal, you say? Not under "the president can do whatever they want" clause of Trump V Everyone
Make America (Trump's idea of) Slightly Imperfect Again.
Actually not that different from Dem establishment push for the garbage they dump on us.
Don't reject the 'good' for the 'perfect.'
If only any of this could even be vaguely described as 'good.'
If this is the case why doesn’t Biden just save Democracy using autocracy and have Trump drug into a basement somewhere and shot? Trump advocating for the old simpleminded response that doesn’t imagine someone *else having power.
He's also forgotten (or never knew) that the phrase "bad apple" comes from the saying "it only takes one bad apple to ruin the whole barrel". Though, to be fair, corrupting a phrase about corruption is very meta-Trump.
It’s funny how all other presidents are terrible and he has stated that he will prosecute opponents, simply because they are opponents. But he himself must have immunity to do illegal things.
I mean this is all qualified immunity - the idea that you can do anything in your duties as an officer of the state, so long as you believe it to be the correct thing to do. Christ a judge was let off the hook on qualified immunity for biting a defendant's nose. This country is beyond help.
"Any Mistake" oopsie, I just had a few thousand people deported who were born citizens. Uhoh, I just incited riot at the capital with my position of authority. Shuckie darn! Oh well, I have immunity, so I can destroy the country with no consequences to me! Totalitarianism FTW!
Funny enough, he likely meant "immunity for our party." He'd be more than giddy to see a Dem get taken down legally for doing even a third of what he's accused of.
Trump clearly does believe that the US President has total, unbridled power.
Oh, how he would love to be an omnipotent despot.
No wonder that he (and his MAGAts) see the Constitution merely as a hurdle to overcome, rather than, well, the constitution of the Union.
Well if you could still write it, perhaps with proper capitalization, punctuation, and paragraph breaks, that would be great. I can't read this without my brain zoning out. 😄
King Toad is doing some real "they'll put you in jail for misgendering someone" energy there.
He's honest to Gobbs suggesting stealing government documents or attempting to overturn an election or blackmailing foreign governments just deserves a "meh, these things will happen" 🤬
He'd be saying the exact opposite of Biden or Hillary were seeking such things. He's highlighting he has some rotten skeletons that he's trying to protect exposure of.
There's a piece waiting to be written about how the backlash to civilian control of police that started during the 70's or so (DIRTY HARRY is a good bookend here) is in fact one of the strongest and perhaps the most insidious manifestation of victimhood culture in the US.
So if we ask him or any of his cult if it’s ok for President Biden to have Trump ☠️ since it’s ok with all the immunity, they’ll say “yep, totally ok” ? 😆😂😆😂
Please, someone with access to them ask the question. 🤣
Exhibit XXXXX as to why trump absolutely needs to be imprisoned and/or barred from ever holding public office.
He is unique among US presidents in the extent of his criminality and sociopathy, which is saying a lot.
He's a con artist. I'm not convinced he didn't run in the first place to avoid prosecution for all his various crimes and now he's running again to try and stay out of jail.
Unfortunately, he's a con artist being used by the fascist right.
He’s just quoting William Henry Harrison, Calvin Coolidge , Jimmy Carter, etc. They all say that when they’re running, but then never actually become imperial fascists.
Really begging the question in his post isn't her--"great but slightly imperfect." IS that, actually, an accurate statement of the net effect law enforcement as it currently exists in America has for MOST people, paying MOST of these costs (financial or human) of these "slight imperfections"?
He and guys like him want to be king. They will live in and step all over the American democracy to do it too.
I feel like we’re experiencing what so many other countries went through when the CIA went in to prop up dictators to oppose socialism/communism.
If that asshole would do "it," then it'd be evil. Any other president, probably for the greater good.
Also, in his case, he wants that for criming outside the bounds of elected official. He'd r*pe left right and center then claim presidential immunity.
Has anyone told him that full immunity would mean Joe could have a group of thugs come dig up Ivana's casket , plant an IED at MAL , beat up them club members with a flagpole and Senate wouldn't be able to do zilch about it?
I don't think Habba is capable of telling him that.
Oh yes, laws, protections of the populace, and the rule of law is SO inconvenient! How can we allow bad actors to be hog-tied with such regulations! Can't we see that this is getting in his majesty's way? 😏
What’s fascinating about it is that Trump has complete comfort that even if Biden were given “complete & total immunity” even for events which “cross the line”, Biden wouldn’t actually use it against him or his supporters.
I mean, by his logic, President Joe Biden could just have Donald Trump killed and he couldn't be tried for it. That's what he's arguing for. Granted, Biden would never do that, but Trump certainly would once back in office.
Oh yes, full immunity for a president. Just like King George Washington back in the day.
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I am being told this was just an expansion for a video game and did not actually happen.
It's "impossible" for US Presidents to function without something that US Presidents functioned just fine without for over 200 years, and even the Kings of the UK haven't been considered to have for over 800 years.
Maybe it's just Trump who can't manage to obey the law.
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER:
* The Great But Slightly Imperfect Gatsby
* Great But Slightly Imperfect Expectations
* It’s The Great But Slightly Imperfect Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
* The Great But Slightly Imperfect Imposter
* Make America Great But Slightly Imperfect Again
I wonder what Alito and Thomas will say in order to side with Trump on this question. That should be interesting unless they just default to "because 'fuck the libs', that's why".