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Posted on 10/06/2025 5:55:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Plans are under way to try him in the International Criminal Court. This time he can strike first.
Before his second term began, President Trump was prosecuted repeatedly in state court, federal court and the Senate. After it ends, he could face trial in another venue, the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The U.S. didn’t sign the Rome Statute and therefore doesn’t belong to the ICC, but the court can find a jurisdictional hook in actions the administration has taken abroad in ICC member states.
The strikes on Venezuelan narcoterror smuggling boats provide one possible avenue. Shortly after the U.S. Navy destroyed the first such vessel, Ken Roth, a former head of Human Rights Watch, endorsed ICC intervention. “Trump just did what the International Criminal Court has charged former Philippines Pres. Duterte with doing—ordering the summary execution of alleged drug traffickers,” Mr. Roth tweeted. 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. The ICC has already launched an investigation against a nonmember state (Israel) based on a single boarding of a vessel flagged by a member state, so it has all the precedents it needs.
Mr. Trump has thus far taken an incremental approach to the ICC. He revived a first-term executive order authorizing sanctions against the court and applied it against four ICC officials. None of this has significantly reduced the risk to the U.S. or led the ICC to change its ways.
The ICC’s supporters don’t see the existing sanctions as an “existential threat.” The tribunal can easily ride it out by lying low until a Democratic president lifts the sanctions, as Joe Biden did. The court takes a long view—its prosecutors and judges have nine-year terms
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“”They have not arrested an American yet because they know they can’t get away with it.....yet””
Emphasis on the “yet”. Imagine a horror-scape world... where a cretin like Mamdani is president with AOC as VP. They would have every high-level GOP in prison so fast even ‘their’ heads would spin (exorcist style).
Come here and get some
I’m enjoying some old “Mission: Impossible” shows.
To which President Trump will reply ha ha ha.
Welcome to The Netherlands, Mr. Leftist.
Where do you intend to visit?
Amsterdam, the tulip place, and the Hague.
Some false passports can be made up before Trump leaves office.
https://lpr.adb.org/sites/default/files/resource/506/philippines-1987-constitution.pdf.pdf
I don’t see anything like: “by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law” as in out Amendment VI.
“Public officers and employees must at all times be accountable to the people”
https://lpr.adb.org/sites/default/files/resource/506/philippines-1987-constitution.pdf.pdf
The Democrat nominee in 2028 may promise to extradite Trump to face trial in the Hague, but that would just be to fire up the base—I don’t see her or him actually following through on the threat. It could be dangerous for Trump to travel outside the US but the main danger is from Democrats in the US who want to kill him.
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