POLITICS, HUMOR, AND SATIRE
End Presidential Immunity
Convince Americans “all are created equal”
Right from the start when the Stormy Daniels payoff broke campaign finance laws, Trump got away with mushrooming crimes. And even today, his stockpile of unanswered criminal acts grows.
It’s not just him. Crooked advisors who served him continue to avoid their well-deserved legal comeuppance.
The message telegraphed to average citizens: American high office gives you license to commit wrongdoings the rest of us could never get away with.
It’s odd those serving at the top get special “rights”. A president gets criminal immunity (Trump) and can pardon criminals who assist him in crime. A senator can vote in an obvious conflict of interest situation (Manchin). A chief justice gets to decide about their own recusal (Thomas).
These are graves dug in the mistrust cemetery of American officialdom.
The Constitution is silent on whether a president can face criminal prosecution in court, and the U.S. Supreme Court has not directly addressed the question. The U.S. Justice Department has a decades-old policy that…
