Could Biden order Trump’s execution and win the next election?

  • FrostKing@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Wait, I’ve been out of the loop for a bit; is Trump actually saying that he should be immune to charges because he was the president??? How in the world could he think that would work?

        • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Don’t. It’s people that are out of the loop (people that work too much, don’t care, people with busy lives, etc) who are at risk of falling for Republican propaganda about how bad Biden is and how good Trump is.

          An informed populace is always for the best. It’s why Republicans attack education and freedom of information so hard.

          Be thankful to be informed and thankful you can actually act on it. For now.

    • mcherm@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yes, that is exactly what he is saying. Yes, it is completely absurd and would undermine the bedrock principles of our legal system. However, apparently somewhere between 3 and 6 members of the US Supreme Court may be seriously considering it.

      (To be fair, he does claim that this absolute immunity would go away if half of the House and 2/3 of the Senate decided to impeach the President.)

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        Then again, with that same theory, he could just eliminate Congress altogether before the voting starts for impeachment. Or place specific justices on house arrest before they vote. Basically, the idiotic idea of a president not beholden to laws is mostly the same as a despotism if the “president” wishes it to be.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yep that’s the argument. At the end of the day it’s a stalling tactic to push the trial past election day.

    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yes. But, just an FYI, that’s not the actual reason they’re trying to claim it in court. They know it will never succeed, they just want to use it to delay his election trial until after the election.