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 …

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“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.

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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?

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Hear me out: what if the person had a pussy and you wanted to grab it?

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

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

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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

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Ah yes, the age old “if you are facing felonies, threaten to blackmail the US President trick.”

I’m sure that will work.

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“threaten to blackmail” is such a funny expression, that threat is literally blackmail already.

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His uh, posts sound really desperate. 🍿

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Hey you gonna share that popcorn?

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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?

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Salt and vinegar please

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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.

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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.

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You’d have to break his fingers too

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We need a tiny hammer

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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.

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Being dead didn’t stop Herman Cain from tweeting, not having access to the internet won’t stop Trump from posting his drivel either.

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I bet he only uses the one finger.

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Lmao

He’s blackmailing him with blackmail?

That’s some real 4d chess, man.

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