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.
Trump demands Biden to have complete presidential immunity for any acts against him
Tomorrow’s headline after Trump gets secreted away to a CIA prison: “Trump blacksited by Biden after promoting immunity for POTUS crimes. Irony lost on him.”
God, I am so hard right now.
Seriously! I just wanna see one Dem call him on this and say “yup, you’re right! so here’s Biden with a car battery and jumper cables, an all-in-one water boarding set from Bed Bath & Beyond, a bucket of nails, and one 56 inch magnum dildo. what happens in the white house stays in the white house, ya know what I mean *nudge nudge wink wink!”
No… Let them fight…
Flappy wrinkly Kaiju noises
I mean, Biden regularly exercises and Trump believes exercise is a waste of some limited magical internal life force. Pretty sure we’d know who would win in an actual fight.
Yes, Biden is wrinkle-swole and Trump is hamberder floppy. All Biden Kong has to do is run out Trumpzilla’s magical exercise battery.
I mean, let’s not kid ourselves here… they’re both decrepit old fucks. Trump just has a ~150lbs of extra weight slowing him down further
Not sure Biden wants to risk contracting raging syphilis, though.
… Trumpzilla’s magical exercise battery.
Is that what he’s calling his penis these days?
No he literally believes everyone is born with a set amount of activity in them. Exercise expends that activity, so they’ll die sooner.
Cocaine and amphetamines, though: A-OK.
I get that. My question was facetious.
You misspelled phallic
Should we start calling AAA batteries that now?
Trump’s positions basically boil down to “Florida Man defends his political opponent has the absolute right to shoot him with an assault rifle live on TV”.
Well, by their logic probably, Biden isn’t really the president because the election was totally rigged against Trump. Biden doesn’t get immunity and Trump is still covered by it.
I want stricter enforcement on anyone with power, not less. If you have the power to create and/or enforce the laws of the nation you should be held at a higher standard to uphold them.
This situation is just so crazy. We’ve had decades of the right wing frothing at the mouth against “big government” and “activist judges”. Now that their god-king is reaching for absolute power they flip a 180 so hard they fall all over themselves to demand that we have a king instead of a country By The People, For The People.
I know that conservatives don’t have morals or actually held beliefs: they have goals. Any time the world doesn’t jive with their goals they’ll take any position required to achieve the goal of the moment. I grew up with a right wing in the US that demanded liberty or death, but it seems that was all just a veneer over a goal to end democracy, topple the republic, and enshrine a king to rule over us all. The mask is off and a vote for Trump demonstrably makes you an enemy of the republic.
America has enshittified itself.
I’m wondering if Bill Barr has had a change of heart. Prior to the Trump Administration, he was openly advocating the Unity Executive Theory, which basically says the President gets to do whatever the hell they want. He even made fun of “progressives” who argued that this would make the President into a dictator (at around 13:00 in the video). A little over a year after that address, he was pulling the brakes hard on Trump’s attempt to steal the election.
Hey, Barr, how about we pull back on the President’s power, not give more.
I just want to add a caveat (while basically agreeing with frezik) that proponents of the unitary executive theory thought that Bill Barr was a total crackpot. So, it’s more like Barr was trying to rehabilitate fascism through an already existing term that makes fascism sound respectable.
Yeah, and his choice to back is questionable, too. If you wanted to make the President a dictator, wouldn’t you want to find an intelligent philosopher king for the job? He picks Donald Fucking Trump.
Barr clearly isn’t an idiot. All I can think of is that he thought he could be the power behind the throne, and found out how wrong that was.
Yeah I think for fascists the opportunity for becoming a little mini-dictator over their respective area of the state is very tempting.
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.
The GOP depends on the integrity of the Left to not stoop to their level even when given carte blanche to do so. They’ll openly follow the rules as written, loopholes and all, while the rest of us are following the rules as intended in good faith. Obviously, they’ll also bend or break the rules too, but they’re usually not as open about that as Trump.
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My friend Geoff. That shifty fucker always wins monopoly.
No one, it’s fucking monopoly.
Yes (me.human).
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“Presidents should have complete immunity!”
“Biden should be brought to court for what he does!”
Sooooo… Which one is it?
Trump probably came up with this on the fly. And since there’s more intelligence in a 10L bucket of semen, both him and his followers thinks this is an awesome idea
So presidents can assassinate ex-presidents? I guess Joe knows what to do.
This country does supposedly protect democracy, and Joe claims Trump is an enemy of democracy. What the fuck is he waiting for?
Future presidents can assassinate sitting presidents, just ask Bush
Oh snap! (are people still saying that? idk I’m old)
Is he never going to suffer any kind of consequences for being so dirty and dishonest? As a non-American I’m really impressed by what is going on.
It’ll just drag on until he eventually succumbs to his decades-long suicide by cheeseburger.
Then the DOJ put out a statement exclaiming “ah shucks, we were like this close to a conviction. We’re just as frustrated as you are!”
decades-long suicide by cheeseburger
Not the worst way to go down ngl.
Don’t forget raping
Old American guy here. We’re not used to this sort of thing. All very new.
My wife is a Filipina my age. She doesn’t see the big deal. She’s seen some shit.
I’m assuming she lived through the martial law?
Trump just said Biden has immunity to jail him for no reason at all! Thanks Trump!
Perhaps jail… or I mean if we’re brainstorming… perhaps capture him and remove all his nails with pliers.
I thought Hunter was reason enough?
Biden death squads. Start with MAGA.
IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD
Yes this is called the judicial system
So, Biden can just throw Trump in jail right now, or assassinate him? Cool, cool. Donny isn’t too bright, is he.
It’s not hard to make an argument that he is a threat to national security.
Wasn’t there a couple by the name of Rosenberg that also took classified documents and gave them to countries in Asia? What ever happened to them?
This idiot is really arguing that someone should be able to assassinate him without any consequences. That is the legal argument he’s making.
I think he’s promoting a no holes bared, fight to the death presidential BATTLE ROYAL.
My money is on #39
*holds
No holes barred would be a different type of wrasslin’.
You missed ‘bared’?
Ugh lol
I think Obama would be the favorite to win
Sounds like he’d be up for some good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_mutilation_in_Byzantine_culture
that hasn’t occurred to him yet. but he plans on being america’s last president
No, you’re missing the point. You see, this special immunity should only apply to Trump. Because he’s Trump, and if he says stupid things often enough, some people will believe him.
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.
I bet if Biden did shoot orange man, this type of presidential immunity would disappear.
“… YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD”
Based on this, why should anybody ever be charged with crimes? We should all be granted total immunity from any crimes ever committed, since potentially years of trauma could result from investigating anything that’s done. We should just let bygones be bygones. Like that homeless guy that was killed in a hit&run incident on Sept 17th, 2006 at 12:31am, by some drunk driver who was never caught. We just need to move on guys, things happen, it’s over and done with. Investigating that would just lead to years of trauma trying to determine good from bad.
Oddly specific…
Like that homeless guy that was killed in a hit&run incident on Sept 17th, 2006 at 12:31am, by some drunk driver who was never caught.
That’s very specific, OP. Is there anything you’d like to share?
“Aww, surely he didn’t mean it exactly like he said it. We must give him the benefit of the doubt since he is a rich and respectable person who wouldn’t say something like that.”
“No, please. Do not give me the benefit of the doubt. I mean it - I WILL literally kill you if I get elected again.”
“That could mean anything, surely he wouldn’t imply that he would kill us if he got elected. He must have misspoken or meant something else.”
The issue is, Trump never means what he says. Lying is like breathing for him. So no one should believe what he literally says. He can’t actually follow through on a plan to do anything, even if he wants to.
You should believe that he wants to do what he says though. He may accidentally do something worse and not fix it. Like the trade war with China that accomplished nothing. Or the millions of unnecessary pandemic deaths. Trump isn’t dangerous because of what he will do, but because of what other people will do while he fails to act in the interests of the country.
I’m definitely voting for the leopards again this year. I mean, last time they ate the faces of people just like me, some of whom I didn’t like very much to begin with. But ultimately, I was mostly unharmed last time. Surely that will continue to be the case, and the leopards will only way the faces of other people,and not me.
