"Silence, I keeel you!"
Posted on 01/04/2024 8:18:25 PM PST by bitt
Special Counsel Jack Smith went completely off the rails and told a federal appeals court that Trump’s immunity argument would allow him to order his supporters to murder opposing lawmakers.
Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged ‘crimes’ committed while he served as US President.
“In 234 years of American history, no president ever faced criminal prosecution for his official acts. Until 19 days ago, no court had ever addressed whether immunity from such prosecution exists,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in last month’s filing, according to CBS News. “To this day, no appellate court has addressed it. The question stands among the most complex, intricate, and momentous issues that this Court will be called on to decide.”
Oral arguments in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals begin on January 9.
Jack Smith argued Trump is not immune from prosecution because he could order the murder of his political opponents or sell nuclear secrets.
“The implications of the defendant’s broad immunity theory are sobering. In his view, a court should treat a President’s criminal conduct as immune from prosecution as long as it takes the form of correspondence with a state official about a matter in which there is a federal interest, a meeting with a member of the Executive Branch, or a statement on a matter of public concern,” according to Jack Smith’s 82-page filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Jack Smith’s team argued that if Trump is protected by the presidential immunity argument, what could stop him from telling his “inciting his supporters during a State of the Union address to kill opposing lawmakers…”
“That approach would grant immunity from criminal prosecution to a President who accepts a bribe in exchange for directing a lucrative government contract to the payer; a President who instructs the FBI Director to plant incriminating evidence on a political enemy; a President who orders the National Guard to murder his most prominent critics; or a President who sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, because in each of these scenarios, the President could assert that he was simply executing the laws; or communicating with the Department of Justice; or discharging his powers as Commander-in-Chief; or engaging in foreign diplomacy. Under the defendant’s framework, the Nation would have no recourse to deter a President from inciting his supporters during a State of the Union address to kill opposing lawmakers—thereby hamstringing any impeachment proceeding—to ensure that he remains in office unlawfully,” Jack Smith wrote.
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A very very unpleasant person. The sort you really do not want as a next door neighbor
No, you shouldn’t do that to POSs. Think of something else. :)
The la brea Tar pits
Is where ebonics
Takes these people
All too true. People have been institutionalized for less.
Humm. Falls under the catagory of "Objection....arguing based on facts not in evidence". Sounds like he is getting a bit paranoid.
Bad stuff happens if you try to kill the king and fail.
Good night!
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Jack’s going to start showing an eye twitch and hand tremors. Dude is wound up.
listen stooopid, he could do that from his basement...
Might not be a bad idea.
Off the rails, bombshell, unhinged...
Trump broke him.
Jack Smith is definitely a psychopath.
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I think you are right. He’s like a shark who only wants to kill and eat its prey. There is no ethics or compassion in its brain.
Trump's motion is for "absolute immunity" for "official acts." I fail to see how ordering the murder of anyone can be an "official act." I searched for "official act" on the web and found some examples, but no definition.
Wow, this guy is about this: || far from pulling down his pants and gibbering incoherently in the courthouse while flinging his poo at the Trump team.
I think that’s the perfect summary, well done. Meanwhile Jack Smith is exposing himself as a rabid illogical partisan more and more every day.
How many of these crazy stories about Trump and what he’s planning to do, or what he’s thinking, or what he said when no one else was in the room, have there been?
During his first term, they came in a non-stop barrage.
My favorite was the one where he was shaking hands with some A-A celebrity who was visiting him in the Oval Office, and the story was that Trump was thinking the N-word to himself.
But the TDS gang don’t want to be punished for thought crimes.
The judge should have had Smith removed from this case upon hearing that nonsense.
This guy is a wacko!
"Silence, I keeel you!"
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