former president trump He pushed back on Thursday against critics' arguments against presidential immunity, saying that careful consideration of whether a president's actions lead to punishment could prevent either him or a future president from being hampered by an emergency. He said that there is.
President Trump told Fox News that if executive privilege were to be weakened and the president took unilateral action as chief executive, opposing parties could immediately begin strategizing how to prosecute their rivals. Told.
“I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about myself.” [how] “Every president has to have immunity, because if you take immunity away from a president, it's very important, and you have a president who can't do anything,” he said on “Hannity.”
”[W]”If he leaves office…the opposition will indict him for doing what should have been a good thing,” he said, pointing to reports of mistakes and misfires by his predecessor in trying to stamp out terrorism.
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“Obama dropped missiles that ended up hitting kindergartens, schools, and apartment complexes. Many people were killed. If that's the case, Obama will be indicted when he leaves office.”
The Obama administration estimates that 542 airstrikes killed between 64 and 116 civilians, according to a 2019 New York Times report.
In this regard, Trump said that Obama had “good intentions” but suggested that things might be different without executive privilege.
Mr. Trump later suggested that Mr. Biden could file a larger lawsuit to preserve executive privilege.
“He killed our country with his policies. The border is a disaster. Everything he does is a disaster. What he did in Afghanistan is the most embarrassing moment in our history…” Trump said. Ta.
“Well, if he wasn't immune when he left office – now I think what he did was terrible, but he probably would have been, I don't know, hard to believe. But he probably meant it in good faith. That's a tough one. You have to believe he said it in good faith.”
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Trump said Biden is at least incompetent, but presidential immunity protects the incumbent from acting out of fear of prosecution.
He expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would rule in favor of preserving presidential immunity pending decisions in both the Washington and Atlanta federal cases.
Critics have blasted Trump's stance, with MSNBC journalist Jonathan Lemire claiming that Trump is “trying to reverse engineer the acquittal.” [verdict] Not only will he be released from the trial he is facing, but he could also try to give himself permission to break any laws he wants, up to and including assassination in a possible second term. ”
“When Donald Trump tells us who he is and what he's going to do, we should believe him,” Lemire said Thursday.
On “Hannity,” Trump added that he was also confident the Supreme Court would overturn the removal of names from ballots in Colorado and Maine, and many other states where the possibility has been raised. He pointed out that he had decided against removing him from the election ticket. .
“I truly believe they're going to let the people vote,” he said. “You're the front-runner in both parties. You lead the Democrats by far more points. I mean, it's hard to imagine them doing that.” [it]. ”
