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The Immunity to lie constantly without being questioned.
The Immunity to profit from your Office with no accounting worries.
The Immunity to break any law without legal consequences.
The Immunity from results of state-certified elections.
The Immunity to silence, jail, or even kill your vocal opponents.
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Defendant One — like Putin — not only demands Immunity from any and all accountability, the pathological liar also demands cowering loyalty too. That or be deemed an “enemy of the nation.”
It’s just that simple. Trump thinks he should be treated like Putin. No questions, or else.
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The scary thing is, the U.S. Supreme Court just might grant him his delusional wish.
Afterall, his MAGA followers have already conceded as much.
Just ask Tucker about the merits of strongmen worldviews. Just ask Speaker Mike Johnson about using the funding for Ukraine’s fight, against Putin’s brutal aggregation, as a political football.
All because Defendant One demands unfaltering Loyalty. Or else.
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Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.
The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president would be immune from prosecution on that matter or even on selling pardons.
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“He would have to be impeached and convicted,” Sauer replied.
thehill.com — Jan 9, 2024
Thus the Loyalty demands on Congress too. In Trump’s worldview there is no accountability if you can bully, threaten and intimidate, your way out of it. Something he used to excel at.
SCOTUS are you listening? Or are you too folding under the Putin-style intimidation ?
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“Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death,” [President Joe] Biden said in a fiery speech at the White House.
He said the U.S. did not know exactly what had happened to Navalny, but that “there is no doubt" that his death "was the consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did.”
www.nbcnews.com — Feb 16, 2024
Now just swap in the name Trump, for Putin, in that press statement, and you’ll be up to speed on Defendant One’s current, desperate political ambitions:
Trump thinks he should be treated like Putin. No questions, or else.
His lawyers are arguing as much. His hard-core supporters are doing the “enforcing” … in the shadows. Far from the transparency of the proverbial town square.
Special counsel Jack Smith was targeted with a swatting call at his Maryland home on Christmas Day, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
abcnews.go.com — Jan 9, 2024
The strongman intimidation campaign continues ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ‘s New York civil fraud trial is back in session Thursday for closing arguments hours after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge.
The early morning police response to the Long Island home of Judge Arthur Engoron didn’t delay the trial.
www.pbs.org — Jan 11, 2024
That last intimidation effort worked out well for him, eh?
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