Posted on 06/17/2024 7:26:33 AM PDT by libstripper
Former President Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan was a "modern day Salem witch trial" that has opened the floodgates to district attorneys across the nation prosecuting former presidents, experts told Fox News Digital.
"No matter how you twist and warp the traditional role of the prosecutor, it's always going to have a bad outcome. It's bad for the legal system. And you now see two DAs — both of whom are Soros, rogue prosecutors — using their office to go after somebody who, if his name had not been Trump, no DA would have even blinked an eye his way. [They are using] the law in a perverted way for purely political reasons," Heritage Foundation legal fellow Charles "Cully" Stimson told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.
"It doesn't even pass the laugh test," he added.
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The solution to this problem is to state that the President, even when he becomes an Ex President, is immune from prosecution for anything done while in office, even if such a thing was as private as strangling his wife, with that immunity being subject to the impeachment clauses of the Constitution. Thus, for the President or ex-president to be prosecuted he would've had to commit treason, bribery, or any other high crime or misdemeanor. Then he would've had to be impeached and convicted of that crime. That's really a pretty broad group of crimes since something as horrible as strangling his wife could easily be viewed as a high crime or misdemeanor. That way the former president would have the protection of the Constitution, regardless of whether an alleged crime was viewed as within the scope of his duties as President or not. As we have seen with the impeachment prosecution of Pres. Trump, Congress can act very quickly and continue an impeachment proceeding after a President has left office. If the President is successfully impeached and convicted by the Senate, then he can be prosecuted for what ever crimes he was impeached and convicted for. Thus he does not have, "absolute immunity." Hence, this really works out to a pretty reasonable situation. If anyone here disagrees with me please post appropriate comments.
Democrats are entitled, violent children.
They will use or destroy anything for the sake of a short-term narrative.
It’s time to see Hillary on trial. Then Lock her up.
Thought crime of the day: Would Trump spend four months in jail to put Hussein behind bars for four months?
It need not be immunity. I want to go after 0bama and Clinton, too.
It just needs to be legal in its basis.
Then you will not reign in the excesses and it is still LawFare.
Can we get around to Carter?
The System is allowing abuse that is not only against Trump. The Jan 6ers and many others are getting it, too.
The System needs a correction. Exculpatory evidence must be provided, judges must drop senseless lawsuits, etc.
It should not be immunity for killing your wife or fraud.
The justices may realize that only Republican Presidents are in danger from rogue DAs and may worry about being perceived as partisan if they rule in favor of immunity (since a majority of them were nominated by Republican Presidents).
Let’s just sue all former presidents.
Something can be found on each of them.
Well, Jimmy Carter is really old by now, he can be exempt!
By comparison to Trump’s trial, the Salem witch trials were models of due process.
If this is how they analyze it then they are, in fact, partisans.
Only way to fix that is legislation that anything that happens during the president’s tenure in office, if no impeachment proceeding is begun while they’re in office, those actions are hands-off after they leave office.
If they don’t agree to it, then immediately begin impeachment proceedings for Obama, Biden, Clinton, et al, as soon as Republicans have sufficient numbers in the House to demonstrate the issue.
That could be dangerous. Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican candidate for President, died shortly after his 100th birthday.
It’s time to prosecute libtard Presidents for their crimes against humanity
Clinton should be charged with murder over what he did at waco. There is no SOL on murder or manslaughter in texas. Clinton sent in military tanks to flatten the buildings where he knew the people were and burned 80 of them alive.
Obama should be prosecuted for DACA. Section 1324 title 8 makes it a federal felony to encourage illegals to live here.
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