The Next Prosecution of Donald Trump

Wall Street Journal ^ | 5 Oct, 2025 | Eugene Kontorovich

[MtnClimber]

NOTE: The article is behind a paywall and the link may be blocked. You can go to RealClear Politics for Oct 6 and find the link to the article about half way down the morning list. Using this link will allow you to view the entire article.

[fruser1]

If they don’t jail or bankrupt the lawfare activists, there will be plenty of cases against Trump & Co. here when his term ends.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Cut off international aid to every single country that signs on to this crap and deport every single one of their people.

[struggle]

Now is a perfect time to dismantle super-national entities like the ICC and UN. They’ve become party to the highest bidder.

[bk1000]

Trump pisses off the globalist cabal again.
Film at 11:00.

[rktman]

Owwwwwwww! The ‘aye see see”.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Cut off international aid to every single country that signs on to this crap and deport every single one of their people. ::

Then tell the ICC that their continued existence is dependent on NATO funding (and any incoming missiles).
We have the ability to declare such legal wranglings an ‘act of war’.
After the smoke clears... the US courts might say we were wrong.
Meh.

[jacknhoo]

“Venezuela is a Rome Statute party, which in the court’s thinking gives it jurisdiction over U.S. officials and servicemen involved in the attacks.”

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Sorry, none of this works like that.

[Vaduz]

The most dangerous people are the ones going after Trump he’s blocking the bolshevik aganda of the left.

[Danie_2023]

“”Now is a perfect time to dismantle super-national entities like the ICC and UN. They’ve become party to the highest bidder.””

Lol...and how, pray tell, would the US go about doing that? It’s an international conglomerate of European and smaller nations around the globe. The US has no power or ability to “dismantle” it. The best we can do is ignore it for now. And Trump could kick the UN the hell out of the USA. But for some reason Trump is not in favor of that. But as soon as the Democrats regain power, whatever we have done will be reversed.

[Leaning Right]

Unfortunately, the ICC does have teeth. It’s not the court itself. It’s the leftist governments that are willing to do the bidding of the ICC.

For example, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. So Netanyahu has to be careful about which countries he enters. The link below has a list of countries that said they would arrest Netanyahu.

(The article is from November of 2024. The list might have changed since then.)

https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-arrest-warrant-list-countries-comply-icc-1990062

[EQAndyBuzz]

“ The US has no power or ability to “dismantle” it.”

We are not a member.

[Jane Long]

Wall Street Jourinal sounds so pleased.

[rlmorel]

That was my first thought. The Wall Street Journal goes hand-in-hand with the US Chamber of Commerce.

Both into open borders and globalization.

[Racketeer]

“Cut off international aid to every single country that signs on to this crap and deport every single one of their people.”

Exactly. Do it now. Quit funding the UN, NATO, and the World Bank.

[jjotto]

Reminder to ICC: The American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA), AKA the “Hague Invasion Act,” is still United States federal law.

The next Dem president will be so depraved that ICC won’t be necessary to ‘get Trump’.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"...the ICC has charged former Philippines Pres. Duterte with ordering the summary execution of alleged drug traffickers”

The ICC may charge Pres. Trump with killing Venezuelan drug traffickers.

The ICC sure loves global drug trafficking and the destruction of tens of millions of lives.

[Dr. Sivana]

Trump just did what the International Criminal Court has charged former Philippines Pres. Duterte with doing

I do not like Duterte personally, but he was addressing an existential problem in the Philippines. You have general poverty, Red China seizing islands and waterways, Muslim troublemakers, and drug cartels wanting the make the Philippines a full-fledged narco-state.

When the problem is so extreme and pervasive on the cartel side, fire is sometimes fought with fire. Not by choice, but in pure self-defense. The Philippines is not 18th century Massachusetts, Right now, they, along with Vietnam and Malaysia are starting to get their piece of the manufacturing and export action. That likely would NOT have happened had Duterte played by Queensbury rules.

[Leaning Right]

US out of NATO and out of the World Bank. And usefulness those organizations might have had are long gone.

But I’d keep the US in the UN for one reason only. We have the veto in the Security Council. That will keep the UN from getting even worse than it is.

Oh, and about funding the UN. The US is one of 193 countries in the UN. So we should pay for 1/193 of its upkeep. No more. If they don’t like that, they can pass a resolution. Which we will veto.