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Best quote in the comments by Freethought sums it up for me:
It already was kinda meaningless since the president can tell someone to commit a crime and then pardon them (as happened ~~with Michael Cohen~~)
Only if it’s a federal crime. Crimes like assaulting police officers, and even bank or election fraud are often filed at the state level. The charges Trump are facing in Georgia are just one example.
What? Who pardoned Michael Cohen? He went to prison. Twice. Trump's attack dog Barr made sure of it.
sorry, was mixing up Paul Manafort and Roger Stone - there were just so many criminals in that team
No problem, there's still many shitbirds.
And it means Obama can commit any crimes he likes now. Pretty sure the trump humpers wouldn’t like that.
Fascists worship power. They don't care about hypocrisy, they care about the position that gives them more power.
A prime example of this is free speech. Fascists love to complain about being silenced yet the moment they take power one of the first things they do is silence the press and shutdown dissenting opinions. Free speech is a tool to get them power, quickly discarded when it comes to maintaining or expanding power.
Fascists know they are hypocrites, they don't care. They'll abandon positions the second they don't lead to getting them more power.
Where did you get that?
Trumps flat out wrong about this immunity claim, and it would pretty much destroy all checks and balances if allowed, but he’s only claiming it for acts while he was still in office. Jan 6th happened while he was still legally the President. He’s claiming that he has immunity for actions as President.
Obama hasn’t been president in 7 years. Anything he does now is as a normal citizen. An equal comparison would be if Obama were charged today for something that happened in 2016, and he claimed immunity.
It would mean that Biden would be immune from prosecution for anything though now, which would set up for him just ignoring any election, legally.
Serious question: can you not recognize sarcasm, or irony? The poster you're answering was clearly not serious, and was pointing out hypocrisy.
I don't see any sarcasm is irony in there. It's an attempt at an analogy but the mistake is so big as to only confuse the matter further.
I meant if the SC accepted trump’s argument that he’s got unconditional immunity even for things after he left office (which they won’t, but hypothetically if they did), it would mean that would apply to Biden, Obama, and Clinton, too.
He’s trying the immunity argument for the classified docs thing, too, not just J6. If he can still claim immunity after leaving office, Obama could go on a crime spree and claim immunity, too.
None of that matters, though, because this whole claim is laughably unconstitutional.