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Trump posts all-caps rant telling people they 'JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH' presidents who 'CROSS THE LINE'
Yahoo ^ | 01/18/2024 | Grace Eliza Goodwin

Posted on 01/18/2024 3:17:36 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

Donald Trump is once again claiming that presidents should have total immunity from any crimes they commit while in office — this time, with an all-caps rant posted to Truth Social.

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"A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION," Trump wrote on his social-media platform in the early hours of Thursday morning. "ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END.

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To: Golden Eagle

“If it was Obama”

I don’t know what is so hard to understand? It was Obama and almost president in history that broke laws. Illegally starting wars, bombing countries haphazardly, gun running, busing migrants, allowing poison to enter country, and ignoring hundreds of laws during their terms. If every president was treated as unfairly as Trump or held accountable for the laws they broke, the courts would jail every president alive now/in the future, and the courts would be tied up for decades.


81 posted on 01/18/2024 6:44:24 PM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $2.00 a gallon.)
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To: Jim Robinson
There is no constitutional authority to prosecute the president

There is no constitutional prohibition on it either. In fact, since you have read the Constitution, you're aware that it's quite vague (nearly silent, in fact) on the question of prosecuting anybody.

Also, this final paragraph in Section 3 should be of interest to you, and to Mr. Trump:

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

That should put an end to Mr. Trump's assertion of "COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY".

As I said earlier, there's no need to amend the Constitution.

82 posted on 01/18/2024 6:53:38 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Law has its limits. Even God recognizes that so he exercises grace and mercy. And the same principle applies to running a democracy. We just call grace, immunity. It seems grace is the higher calling and is needed by necessity since any law system breaks down at a certain point because of man’s imperfection. We just hope we don’t have to test it thereby pushing the system to disastrous results . . . and that is what we are well on the verge of doing.


83 posted on 01/18/2024 6:55:28 PM PST by Paraclete
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To: MinorityRepublican

“White women will crawl on broken glass to vote for the Democrats on the abortion issue alone.”

Then they will deserve the hell their lives become as our country evoles into a totalitarian Marxist nightmare.


84 posted on 01/18/2024 7:11:57 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: NorthMountain

That is a prohibition. And he was not convicted, by the way.


85 posted on 01/18/2024 7:15:34 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY

Nowhere in the Constitution does it grant the president “full immunity.” In fact, Article I, Section 3 states that those impeached are in fact subject to “ Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment ” :

“Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.”

86 posted on 01/18/2024 7:25:43 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Jim Robinson
That is a prohibition.

That is the absolute OPPOSITE of a prohibition. The operative phrase there is, and I quote: "shall nevertheless be liable and subject to

It's as easy to understand as the clause from the Second Amendment you see in my tagline.

Bluntly: The Constitution DOES NOT provide for any sort of "COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY". It just isn't in there.

87 posted on 01/18/2024 7:46:15 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Responsibility2nd

He crossed no line.

What line do you think he crossed?


88 posted on 01/18/2024 8:26:41 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

What line do you think he crossed?

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The line Trump himself said he crossed.


89 posted on 01/18/2024 9:41:32 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Can you give the quote of what line he said he crossed?

I can’t find it.


90 posted on 01/18/2024 10:06:05 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Golden Eagle
All right, another resident TDSer chimes in

Thanks for making note of that Jim.

91 posted on 01/19/2024 2:56:01 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: thegagline
Another one trying to fool people....

Golden Eagle is trying to push his/her interpretaton that Trump wants full immunity, no matter what, even from impeachment, to do what ever he wants....

All right Sir, I went back and very carefully read what Trump actually said, several times, and he is saying that we should be accepting of ALL Presidents crossing the line, at their discretion,

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4211289/posts?page=44#44

and thegagline wants people to ignoe the part that says

“Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States:

92 posted on 01/19/2024 3:59:49 AM PST by backpacker_c
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To: Responsibility2nd

/massive eyeroll.

Another NeverTrumper spews.


93 posted on 01/19/2024 5:26:59 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: sam_whiskey
you and millions of others need to get your priorities straightened out.

there is a republic to rescue and complaining about writing in caps is both infantile and asinine.

94 posted on 01/19/2024 6:56:26 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: backpacker_c
You purposely omitted what came after the colon: “ but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.”

You can lie by omission or commission- you chose the former.

95 posted on 01/19/2024 10:04:09 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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