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 …
“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.
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?
Hear me out: what if the person had a pussy and you wanted to grab it?
According to their logic, it is ok if you are famous. Clearly we should base our jurisprudence on fame then. /s
In that case they let you do it because you’re famous
Fortunately OR unfortunately
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
Ah yes, the age old “if you are facing felonies, threaten to blackmail the US President trick.”
I’m sure that will work.
“threaten to blackmail” is such a funny expression, that threat is literally blackmail already.
His uh, posts sound really desperate. 🍿
Hey you gonna share that popcorn?
You said when I went to make popcorn that you didn’t want any, so I only made enough for myself. I’ll go make more though 🍿🍿.
You want cheese powder on it?
Salt and vinegar please
Wait…you can do that? I thought that was a chips-only-condiment-combo. Blowing my fucking mind right now chief.
Keep the requests coming, I want to learn more popcorn secrets. I’m a butter and salt person. I grind my salt in my coffee grinder to a fine powder though and use that, I get better coverage.
While nicely frugal, I just buy a small shaker of popcorn salt for $2. A shaker lasts roughly one human lifetime if not accidentally spilled all over the counter.
I usually just have it however it comes out of the bag, but I’ll occasionally add a seasoning blend I have in the kitchen.
Two favorites have both been from Trader Joe’s, their Umami mushroom powder and their “everything but the leftovers” blend.
Just FYI, you can buy “popcorn salt,” which is already fine ground.
And doesn’t taste like coffee.
Dill pickle 😋
One of my local restaurants has fresh cut salt and vinegar fries, and they’re absolutely incredible.
The best popcorn is the popcorn you add weird toppings to.
Garlic and onion is my favorite, but you can use basically any seasoning shaker. I use a spray bottle of distilled water, spray on, add flavor shaker, done.
Super low calorie option that still tastes great. You can use oil if you want but it really doesn’t add much when you have actual flavors.
You can do the same thing with sweet flavors if you want, cinnamon sugar or drink powder mixed with sugar make for great sweet popcorns.
Nutritional yeast, tamari, and red chili powder for me, please. I thought I didn’t want any but it smells so good, and this is getting entertaining.
Can we just, lock him up already?
Please? Or at the very least break his jaw so he has to shut the fuck up while it heals?
We all know he’s guilty. We all know he’s a treasonous insurrectionist. We all know he belongs in prison.
We all know that any normal person would have been hanged by now.
You’d have to break his fingers too
We need a tiny hammer
No reason he should have his cell phone in jail. He can use the pay web terminals like everyone else, one hour per week with a 56k connection.
Being dead didn’t stop Herman Cain from tweeting, not having access to the internet won’t stop Trump from posting his drivel either.
I bet he only uses the one finger.
Lmao
He’s blackmailing him with blackmail?
That’s some real 4d chess, man.
Just this whole attitude towards the thing shows how crooked he is. As far as I can tell, Biden has tried to remain hands-off from the Justice Dept and just let them do their own thing to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. And I believe that’s more or less been how most Presidents have tried to behave since maybe Nixon EXCEPT for Trump, who seems to view it as his own personal legal hit-squad, to be used for just litigating people he doesn’t like, instead of… y’know, administering justice. He completely misunderstands the purpose of government and really should not be allowed anywhere near the position. He should be rotting in prison now, he’s a complete shitstain on history.
Of course. He’s literally demented.
Perfectly reasonable thing to do for someone that clearly never did anything wrong, right?
I’d hate to say it, but the very act of voting for trump is, at this point, an act of evil.
Always has been.
The same was true 7 years ago as it will be for the foreseeable future.
It’s an act of willful ignorance, something this country doesn’t take seriously enough.
Threatening the president is a federal crime, right?
Maybe they can kill two birds with one stone - visit him about this threat to the president, and quickly check in the hidden room that they missed during the mar a lardo search warrant.
Oh they didn’t miss it… they chose not to check it.
Why
Member how the entirety of the DCI’s TLDs did sweet fuckall about Trump while he was in office? Even after Mueller found there was significant cause to charge him? Well, that’s not because they’re incompetent necessarily.
Consider Officer Sicknick was a Trump supporter.
And a metaphor.
I wish I knew.
I think they politely enquired as to whether there was anything they ought to see in the hidden room. When Trump confirmed that there was not, they accepted that claim at face value, because trump would never lie… right ?
Blackmailing a president is a crime as well.
With prosecution, if he wins an election?
Maybe. But he’s not outright threatening assassins in the night. (They’re too incompetent for that. They’ll show up in the day and ask the secret service for directions to his office.)
Biden should tell him he’ll pardon him if he drops out and then not pardon him.
Biden would probably get charged with murder because that would surely cause the inevitable aneurysm.
Manslaughter at worst
Nobel peace prize likely
Biden should tell him he’ll pardon him if he drops out and then not pardon him.
Ah, the Underwood approach.
Headline is technically true but this is a non story.
Trump is mad about the appeals court ruling that he isn’t immune from prosecution and is lashing out.Everything about this turd is a non story except for the fact that he incited an insurrection on the US capital for which he has not been committed to prison or executed for. Now that’s a story.
Not just the attack, but he actively tried to secretly replace electors in states as well. We literally know he tried to cheat and are like, “it’s fine”.
No. I’d say his willful mishandling of a pandemic outbreak, for which he’ll never be punished, is a pretty fucking horrific story. Way worse than his little temper tantrum at the Capitol.
Well said.
That’s going to be really hard to do while you are rotting in custody, Donnie.
Custody?! In prison? Nah Trumpy boy is never gonna set foot in prison. Guantanamo is never gonna close though…
I said custody and not prison for a reason.
He’ll be on house arrest in a shitty barrack on a military base somewhere, just like Nixon’s lawyer.
Like a fatter, dumber, less charming Napoleon sent to Elba.
I feel like the absolute harshest punishment I can reasonably see him ever facing is nothing more than a ban from holding public office.
That’s it.
Maaaaaybe a few months of house arrest at Mar a Lago. Maybe punitive fines.
No prison time. Nothing that will affect his wealth. Nothing that will deplatform him as the grotesque figurehead of American conservatism until he dies.
I’m confident he will play kingmaker for that half of the American political landscape until he’s dead.
Nah, the feds know where those missing top-secret files ended up at by now. The DoJ doesn’t spend this amount of time, money & manpower to hand out a slap on the wrist.
Nothing that will affect his wealth.
New York is quite literally about to make Trump insolvent.
I hope you’re right, but I’m not holding my breath.
Any. Day. Now.
Yes, literally. It would have been last week, but Judge Engorgon decided he needed to tack on more zeros since he discovered Trump’s financial controller committed perjury in his court room.
If I threatened Biden with a dirty look, I’d have secret service at my door. But if Trump says he’ll commit a crime, no one does anything.
This really encourages me to want to not obey laws.
If you’re not already, you’re not rich enough to start.
I’m not 😭
It just means you’re accepting that there are different codes of law for different social strata, which is both unjust and contrary to the propaganda you were taught in school.
Imagine if tiny d won the electoral college, but not the majority (again) and if the majority of the country threw an insurrection like the teabaggers did. How could the teabaggers complain?
Rules for thee, they’ll plea.
To be fair, as an ex-president he has probably already 24/7 the secret service at his door. But I’m hoping that he someday has correctional officers at his (new) door.
$226,300/y
It should be minimum wage, plus those other benefits.
Obama, Bush, and soon, Crooked Joe Biden, would all be in PRISON
Don’t threaten me with a good time! Virtually all U.S. presidents have caused thousands of civilians to be killed in wars we shouldn’t be fighting.
We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?
Why?
It saves time.Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
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What do you mean lie? It’s more than 400,000 civilian casualties directly caused by US Wars since 9/11.
That’s an alarming statistic and nobody was held accountable for giving the orders to start those wars.
You know, I’m starting to think maybe we might not be the good guys…
We’ve literally NEVER been the good guys. We pay PR companies to white-wash our atrocities. Literal billionaire funded think-tanks that do nothing but spew US propaganda just so idiots in flyover states have one more make-believe story to hang their identity onto, like that Jesus fella.
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