Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump's claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in ...

Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump’s claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in …

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    208·
    10 months ago

    “If a President does not have Immunity, the Opposing Party, during his/her term in Office, can extort and blackmail the President by saying that, ‘if you don’t give us everything we want, we will Indict you for things you did while in Office,’ even if everything done was totally Legal and Appropriate,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

    Leave it to Donnie to misrepresent what the ruling means. Presidents still enjoy lots of immunity, especially where it pertains to their “color of office” duties. They just don’t have total immunity from anything and everything, especially where it doesn’t pertain to their duties. We do not have monarchs or dictators.

    So no, you can’t just shoot someone on Fifth Ave and declare Presidential Immunity to avoid justice, and you can’t just steal government secrets to use as business leverage, and you can’t make phone calls to heads of states to “find votes,” and you can’t incite an insurrection and claim plausible deniability.

    Eat shit. I hope you get no sleep because of these rulings.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.world
      243·
      10 months ago

      Yeah but what if the person on fifth Avenue was literally holding the original constitution and threatening to tear it in half? Would presidential immunity apply then?

        • Gork@lemm.ee
          15·
          10 months ago

          According to their logic, it is ok if you are famous. Clearly we should base our jurisprudence on fame then. /s

        • Tremble
          91·
          10 months ago

          In that case they let you do it because you’re famous

      • rayyy@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        if the person on fifth Avenue was literally holding the original constitution and threatening to tear it in half?

        That would be him committing be suicide then