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Running for president is an extremely stressful endeavor. It's infinitely worse while facing multiple indictments from Democrats and the Biden administration.
But none of that seems to have slowed down Donald Trump, who is leading the Republican primaries by huge numbers. He is in a fighting mood.
The former president recently indicated that if he is successful, his potential Democratic opponent and current president, Joe Biden, could also be indicted.
Trump believes that presidents and former presidents should be immune from such legal problems. But if it is acceptable to indict him, Biden should suffer the same fate. A Pandora's box of sorts.
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“If I don't get immunity, crooked Joe Biden won't get immunity.”
Whether one views Trump's comment as mere retaliation or a genuine warning, the latter is certainly a case to be made in our age of ceaseless political weaponization.
NBC News reported, “Former President Donald Trump suggested Monday that if re-elected he would impeach President Joe Bidenone day before the Court of Appeals is set to hear arguments on his claim that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution for his role in the January 6 attack.
The story continues:
In a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday, Trump said he planned to attend oral arguments on his presidential immunity claim before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday, and claimed it was his duty as president to find voter fraud.
“Of course I, as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, was entitled to immunity. “I wasn't campaigning, the election was long over,” he wrote. “I was looking for voter fraud, finding it, and it's my job to do it, and otherwise run our country.”
Trump then said that if his attempts to avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election were unsuccessful, Biden should not have presidential immunity either.
“If I don't get immunity, crooked Joe Biden will not get immunity,” Trump wrote, before criticizing the Biden administration over the record number of migrants crossing the US southern border, its 2021 decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and baseless claims. Regarding Biden's involvement in suspicious business practices with foreign countries.
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Trump said former presidents are entitled to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for any “official acts” they take during their presidency.
There are likely a lot of Trump fans who disagree with this concept. They may claim that no president can enjoy absolute immunity, and they are right. But what crime did Trump commit, anyway?
If it can be said that Trump can be impeached, it can also be said that Biden deserves the same.
Donald Trump, to say the least, has a point.
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