I listened to the oral arguments in the presidential immunity case being heard before the Supreme Court on my way to the office this morning. Bottom line, Trump isn’t going to win this and he could get swept 9-0. Part of his problem is his lawyer’s lack of an answer regarding any form of limitation to presidential immunity. His lawyer was again unable to explain why his version of blanket presidential immunity would prohibit President Trump from deploying Seal Team Six to kill political opponents. The performance was so bad that even Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito seemed to be frustrated at the absurdity of his claims.
But everyone seems to be missing one key implication from the exchange between Trump’s lawyer and the court. Donald Trump’s team thinks he is going to win and this is just an attempt to run out the clock. Watch:
Kennedy sent troops to Arkansas to intergrat Schools
Was that an against State Law.
Is it True Trump was told 100,000 fraudulent votes
In Georgia?
Would anyone here want JB to have the kind of immunity that Trump's counsel is arguing for? Of course not. Much of the arguments are asinine.
Bottom line is Trump flagrantly broke many laws in trying to illegally undermine an election that he lost in an attempt to remain in power. Many mistake this extremely pathetic behavior / his rhetoric as some type of evidence that he must have believed the election was stolen. However there is more evidence that in fact Trump knew he lost but lied and committed these crimes anyway because he had a clinically severe and contagious case of butthurt. The case appears to be of the same type and strain that many of the commenters in this substack show when it appears like Trump may in anyway be held accountable for any of his illegal actions.
The fact that he was president while committing these crimes does not shield him from culpability, it actually makes the conduct much more egregious and the consequences should reflect that reality.