If you were concerned about the Supreme Court's ruling blank check Don't worry about committing a presidential crime! House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson Top Applicant The story of some criminal ex-president is meant to reassure Americans that they have nothing to worry about. Because, listen, there is no way we could have a president who is “vulnerable to this kind of crazy criminal activity.”
Yes, that's what he said.
Johnson laughed off the misguided concerns of Americans who don't join MAGA. Fox News Interview With Kaylee MacenanyThe former Donald Trump spokesman said Monday:
“There's all this hype tonight, all this fantasy – what-if stuff they've made up,” Johnson said. “Future presidents are going to turn into assassins, and so is everything else. It's crazy.”
Hmm. Who got the idea that the president could turn into an assassin? Oh, right. From Trump lawyer John Sauer. Who spoke to the appeals court In oral arguments in January, the president argued that he should be able to order SEAL Team Six to assassinate political rivals without fear of prosecution. Perhaps that was the beginning of the madness.
But even if the Supreme Court rules that it is okay to kill your enemies if you did it while you were president, Johnson isn't worried.
“The president and vice president are the only two offices in our constitutional system that are elected by the entire people,” he said. “Nobody elected to those offices is going to be vulnerable to this kind of crazy criminal activity.”
Don't just stick to facts, did Have you ever elected a person vulnerable to criminal activity to the presidency? Donald J. Trump. And he recently Convicted of 34 felonies.
In Johnson's mind, it may not amount to “criminal insanity,” but it certainly is a crime!
Trump also faces two federal cases and dozens of other charges in Georgia, and the Supreme Court seems eager to throw them all out, but only because they think being president is a get-out-of-jail-free card. do Commit a crime.
But Johnson believes our entire democracy depends on former presidents being retroactively acquitted.
“The president has to be able to make tough decisions every hour, every day, without worrying that at some point in the future, a fraud prosecutor is going to come after him,” he said. “The president can’t operate with that kind of sword of Damocles hanging over his head. And the court’s ruling today is very simple.”
It’s funny how no president before Trump has ever felt like he was being held back by an invisible sword hanging over his head. But suddenly, for the first time in our nation’s history, the president simply can’t do it without unfettered freedom to commit crimes. The president’s oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” seems to directly contradict the need for criminal activity.
But that's not the case. Trump has repeatedly said claimed The president must be allowed to commit a crime, and the Speaker of the House, the second in command of the president, must agree. So tragically for our country, The Supreme Court.
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