• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Once he’s out of politics, he is still on the hook for the Insurrection and the stolen documents. Those cases weren’t thrown out, they just went dormant. They can be revived.

    Also, he has immunity for “Official” presidential duties. For example, he can’t be charged with murder because he greenlit a drone strike on a terrorist camp that also killed civilians. That would be considered within his official duties.

    But he can’t use his office to solicit bribes, perpetrate frauds, commit election fraud, etc. Those aren’t part of his official duties, those are crimes, and he doesn’t have immunity to commit crimes.

    • micek@feddit.nu
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      5 days ago

      Wait, didn’t he accept a 400 million dollar airplane from a foreign king? I’m no american but I’d imagine that that is kind of a crime when it’s the president doing it? I heard of raised eyebrows, nothing about criminal charges.

      I mean even if he would not keep the plane (as if) and even if the plane wasn’t “prepped” by the gifters before, and even if it wasn’t some unusable piece of junk they’ve tried to get rid of for years… it’s still way too much of a gift to present to a president if it’s not abundantly clear it’s a gift to the people… and I have heard no such thing.

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        5 days ago

        I’m no american but I’d imagine that that is kind of a crime when it’s the president doing it?

        It’s standard practice for US presidents to accept bribes from middle eastern dictatorship, particularly Israel and Saudi Arabia. Nobody in power is going to risk setting a precedent that’s is illegal.