Immunity for me, not for thee

Careful about what you ask for as it might instead come back and bite you.

It is amazing how far some people will go to hang on to power. The “do as I say and not as I do”, party is at it again.

Deflect, deflect, deflect is the name of the game. “Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.”

Trump has both ODS and BDS derangement syndromes. Both Obama and Biden live rent free in Trump’s head. As well as with the MAGA supporters and followers of the “Control Freak” (DSM5) Trump.

Yesterday, the president of the United States announced that one of his predecessors was guilty of treason, and said the time had come for him to suffer the appropriate punishment.

He never stops and nothing is ever good enough. Trump wants to rehash the election he won in 2016, instead of just being glad he won. And then Trump has had no problem with trying to steal an election he lost and keeps claiming he won it with no proof.

Laughable!

Think back to last summer, when it was Trump who was having a little bit of trouble with the law. With federal charges bearing down on him over his attempt to steal the 2020 election and his post-term mishandling of national security documents, Trump developed a sudden deep interest in constitutional Law. In post after post, for a period of months, Trump demanded that the Supreme Court give him a bulletproof cloak against prosecution in the form of a new doctrine of presidential immunity.

“WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY,” he wrote in one representative post, “IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION, PUTTING THE UNITED STATES IN GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER!”

The immunity doctrine the Court handed down last year protected presidents from post-term criminal prosec-ution for most “official acts.” Even if Trump’s accusations that Obama illegally tried to invalidate his election victory were accurate—and again, they are not—there is zero question that Obama’s oversight of the intelligence community’s Trump-Russia investigation constituted an official act. Going by his own repeated statements, Trump should thus believe Obama to be immune from prosecution. But of course this is not how Trump’s mind works. To him, “presidential immunity” doesn’t exist to shield presidents in general. It exists to shield him. The other amazing thing is the specific charge that Obama’s supposed actions constituted treason.

Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis argued that “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” So it is, and so it would be today. Let the sunlight in. Let the sunlight in on Republican and Democratic crimes alike. Release ALL the Epstein files.