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Makes total sense to me (midwest.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

“A president of the United States must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him [or] her to properly function. Any mistake, even if well intended, would be met by almost certain indictment by the opposing party at term end.

“Even events that ‘cross the line’ must fall under total immunity, or it will be years of trauma trying to determine good from bad.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/trump-claims-total-complete-immunity-president-truth-social

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Please always add the person who is quoted. These are Trump's words, while we are discussing what many Republicans are publicly claiming. Of course Trump wants to go way further.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

4 years ago your distinction may be justified, but today trump does speak for the republican party. A significant part of them does support him and agrees with his views.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

He is the person they all chose to represent themselves, so, yes, that is what the large majority of Repubs agree with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is no way in hell those are Trump's words. He couldn't write something that coherent, straightforward and understandable if his life depended on it. At least not anymore, as perhaps he was once more coherent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Probably Steven Miller. Most of the coherent awful shit seems to come from that Nazi fucks brain nowadays. Pretty sure he's one of McConnell's horcruxes.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From criminal prosecution. Noone is arguing the POTUS can't be impeached. We shit on republicans for being ignorant and uninformed, but you're either being ignorant and uninformed or intentionally pedantic.

[+] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You aren't actually addressing my point. I agree with you that Republicans are pieces of shit and Trump is basically arguing that the POTUS could murder anyone they want while in office and the worst thing that can happen to them is that they be removed from office. Which is absolutely scary and another thing on the huge pile of reasons why no one should vote for him. But this doesn't change the fact that he's clearly talking about criminal prosecution after leaving office and not about impeachment. Because that's the context.

Don't worry, I don't expect you to admit you are wrong. I've been in enough of these types of conversations to understand that you're just as lost in your partisanship as Trump supporters and that you are immune to the facts. This place likes to pretend that's different from Reddit, which likes to pretend that it's different from Trump supporters, but the reality is that y'all share a shit ton in common. And I'm sure I do as well, but this is not one of those times. It's your time for that.