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Trump Demands Total Presidential Immunity -- Even for Acts That 'Cross the Line'
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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What line?
I don't think there has been a line for a while.
The line is that only Trump can do anything with impunity. That same power doesn’t apply to Biden or future presidents.
I wonder if anybody has tried to explain to Trump that if he wins the argument that presidents have absolute power that Biden could immediately jail him and his entire family for no reason at all…
Clinton was also immune then right? He just got his sick ducked. Man those were much simpler times...
Clinton took advantage of an imbalance in power to get sexual favors from an intern while he was president of the United States.
An imbalance of power to that degree makes consent impossible.
Yes, the impeachment trial was political bullshit, but let’s not pretend what Clinton did was okay.
Totally cool for our bro Donnie to start an insurrection then, and totally get away with it all, immunity and all.
False dilemmas are dangerous. Don’t fall prey to all-or-nothing, with-us-or-against-us tribalism.
Clinton did a bad thing. Trump also did a bad thing, and directly threatens the stability of our society. Both can be bad while one can still be worse.