The court that he created has ruled his way. Joe Biden is in trouble. But it seems nothing can keep the ex-president happy
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Former president
Donald Trump got almost everything he could have wanted in the past week and a half.
Not only did
President Joe Biden’s performance at the debate on Thursday evening in Atlanta send the Democratic Party
into a collective panic — with
some even speculating that the party would need to replace the president — but Trump has received legal rulings that have benefited him and his political movement.
Nevertheless, because he is who he is, he can’t help but continue to air his grievances.
On Monday, the Supreme Court
ruled that presidents have some immunity from criminal prosecution. That decision will all but guarantee a delay in Trump’s criminal case on charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. It’s just what his team wanted: there’s now unlikely to be a decision until after the 2024 presidential election, when it can’t affect what happens in November.
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he case will be kicked back to the lower court and Judge Tanya Chutkan will hold hearings to determine whether the allegations against him constitute “official” acts he performed as president or “unofficial acts”. This includes every action taken, ranging from Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger where he infamously asked Raffensperger to “find” additional votes, to his attempt to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence.
At the same time, he cannot help but continue to dip his foot into the pool of conspiracy theories his supporters have drawn and plot his latest idea for revenge. He notably reposted an image of himself and First Lady Melania Trump (who was conspicuously absent from the debate)
with the phrase “Where We Go One, We Go All,” a slogan commonly used in QAnon-believing circles.
Another repost
called for Biden to be arrested for treason. A
third called for members of the January 6 select committee, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to be arrested.
Trump saved most of his ire for Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman with no political power who he already deposed in 2022. He
reposted an image calling for her to face a military tribunal.
Trump openly posts and reposts about legal retribution for his opponents, often saying they committed treason, a crime for which the punishment is death.
The fact that Trump can do so without anyone in his party wincing shows his wholesale control of the party he now represents. And it shows an utmost confidence that nothing he can do will deter voters.
Its one thing for a jazzfanz poster from australia to post these kinds of things but a whole different situation when its the republican nominee for president.