Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that presidents should have total immunity, even for "events that cross the line."

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.

  • btaf45@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    I don’t understand how this is even in play.

    Me neither. Even active presidents only have immunity in very limited circumstances. 30-40 years ago this claim would have been brushed off immediately as utterly ridiculous. That anybody would spend 1 second considering this as a real claim shows how our legal system has degenerated.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Even active presidents only have immunity in very limited circumstances.

      Nope. This has never been tested in the courts. And here we are.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        This is literally why Johnson pardoned Nixon.

        So it wouldn’t get to this point.

        I’m not saying Trump should be pardoned, of course. He should be tried & spend the rest of his life on house arrest in a military barracks.