Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.

The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president would be immune from prosecution on that matter or even on selling pardons.

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      9 months ago

      Sure. Leaving most of Trumps policies in place as well as supporting a genocide in Palestine. He also hasn’t done anything to reverse the genocide on the Indigenous people in the USA, if you want to be spicy. He hasn’t done anything about the clearly disproportionate violence against non-white people, and he allows the hate speech and othering to continue unabated, providing a nice scapegoat for the country’s problems without him having to lift a finger.

      There’s also the ongoing imperialism of the USA, and their hundreds of military bases across the planet, asserting control over numerous populations. While this isn’t necessarily fascist, the common argument used for invasion into other countries is that “we need to bring them freedom and Democracy, and our Western values”. And again, there is still an occupation in Iraq by the USA military, under Biden, where these were clear “reasons” for the occupation.

      So, is it fascist to allow the continuation of things that may be considered fascist when viewed together? Probably. Especially when you lead the largest military in the world, and the second largest economy, no one else has the power to sign a paper and end the atrocities. Well, at least some of them.

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        8 months ago

        Colonialism isn’t domestic Fascism. Fuck off. We have an election to keep our country in existence. Shut the fuck up. You’re a distraction. Shut up.

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          8 months ago

          What do you mean you have an election to keep your country in existence?