Ok let them bring the charges against him and let’s have the supreme clown court explicitly say it’s not an official act. Let’s get that on record now.
Like the six stooges on the court wouldn’t find it unofficial for Biden and then two months later say the exact same thing is legal when a Republican does it.
SCOTUS says that charges can't even be brought unless there is a legal procedure where it's proved to be not "an official act," and DoJ has the burden of proof on that.
Let's say we're living in Crazytown (a stretch, I know), and Biden did order this assassination attempt. The legal process for actually charging Biden with anything would be so long as to deny justice, and that doesn't even count the additional time it would take to try the case and come to a verdict.
Let's say we're living in an alternate universe Crazytown, where Trump actually died, too. That years-long legal process would still be in effect, and "Biden with a Goatee" would enjoy the political benefits of the assassination the entire time, even if he was ultimately charged and found guilty and sentenced to prison several years later.
This is why the SCOTUS ruling on criminal immunity for Presidents is America's Enabling Act.
That reminds me of that Lewis Black joke where they dig up a dead justice to swear in a dead candidate and it's just 2 hours of silence on live national television. He joked that if we did that, no terrorist would ever fuck with the US again because they'd be so creeped out.
Clearly he wasn’t acting officially as president when he used the EPA to poison this young man’s mind with freedom (pfas) free water. He was acting as the authoritarian head of ANTIFA
“Donald was allowed to have his center mass and head exposed by trained secret service agents in the most staged looking photo I’ve seen. He has a history in pro wrestling, hell Linda McMahon worked with him in his cabinet for years, so blood packs are no mystery, and are you going to tell me that a rooftop a mere 400 feet away from him was unmonitored? This is all faker than his tan.”
He was stabbed by a knife (no serious damage) while being carried by his supporters. It was claimed to be political, but afterwards there were accusations that it was staged.
After seeing the photoshoot Trump got from this I hope Europe can pull our collective shit together once Trump pulls the US out of NATO and stops helping Ukraine.
Nah, the US is the largest part of NATO but every member contributes and it’s more like the only reason Russia hasn’t done a “special military operation” here.
The US military is bigger than every other military combined, unless things have changed in the last few years.
We build bases and share planes and tech, they let us and save on defense. Our defense strategies involve using NATO bases to fuck up opposing belligerents.
Not really, NATO as an organizational is made of of the military and equipment of all members. Also NATO and US bases are different, if the US pulls out it’s not taking NATO bases with it. Also I’m pretty sure the US doesn’t use NATO bases for its military operations but their own bases but I’m too lazy to look that up. Also also NATO countries defence strategy has been more like “If you attack one member you attack everyone” so no one really has.
If you attack a NATO member, the largest military in the world responds. The US has multiple of the largest air forces if you count our military services separately. I would assume Trump pulling us from NATO would affect our forward bases, but we may do better than brexit I guess. I just don’t see it as likely. But, my point is that our independent and joint military ventures frees up nations with smaller GDPs to focus less on their own defense (even if they contribute more as a percentage) and it’s a situation the US military likes.
I’m not so sure it would. Like, yea, the US has enough military to take on like the other top 5 militaries in the world and win but NATO doesn’t really need that. It’s mostly about defence and the only country currently invading countries in Europe is Russia which can’t seem to beat Ukraine alone. The biggest issue if the US pulls out is supporting Ukraine but defensively NATO is fine without the US I think.
Or at least it would have to be shown to not be an official act. And since taking classified documents home with you and showing them around to people after your presidential term is over may or may not be an official act, all bets seem to be off.
They ruled in a way that didn't really define what an official act was, so if I'm not mistaken, any act could still be up to SCOTUS to ultimately determine if charges were brought and prosecuted.
This so what I was trying to argue elsewhere: people keep saying it made the POTUS a king, but if I were POTUS and wanted to do something questionable, I know who I would be running it by first.
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