Perhaps America’s greatest news story is Trump’s attempt to have the Supreme Court rule that he is immune from criminal prosecution because he was president at the time he committed the alleged crimes. Most of us view this as absurd, but let’s examine the subject more closely.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was randomly assigned to the federal criminal case accusing Donald Trump of conspiring to obstruct the 2020 election, has ruled that “presidents are not kings,” and therefore Trump had no special privilege to commit any crimes he wished with impunity.
Now, special prosecutor Jack Smith has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling here, even though such a request “leap-frogs” the case over an appellate court.
Former federal prosecutor and legal analysts Glenn Kirscher makes a point that, IMO, explains why Trump’s assertion is, in fact, absurd: If the Supreme Court agrees with Trump, they are making the statement that they are not a co-equal branch of government as specified in the U.S. Constitution. If Trump were to be reelected, he could, if he wished, simply disband the high court.
This is the type of political criminality that defines so-called “banana republics,” i.e., their executives somehow attain absolute power, and then immediately wield that power to pound their judiciaries and legislative bodies (not to mention political opponents) into insignificance. Regardless of how conservative the nine-judge panel may be, they will not vote to set aside the Constitution so as to catapult Donald Trump to a position of leadership enjoyed by Kim Jong Un and the world’s other sociopathic dictators.
Why Trump’s Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court re: Immunity from Prosecution Will Fail
As we look at the rankings of the 50 states in terms of education, we notice immediately that the states at the bottom still love Trump, even as his approval ratings have plummeted to 34% due to his sociopathic criminality and his clear intent to remain in office, just like his heroes in Russia, China, Turkey, Hungary, and another 40+ nations around the globe.
From this, we can infer one of the two diametrically opposite things:
1) College cranks out liberals, because it’s their mission to build of the population of woke liberal sissies who will steadily force our nation into socialism, the acceptance of gays and blacks, and the punishing of the wealthy to enrich the poor.
2) Educated people will call out blatant lies, e.g., that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by massive voter fraud, Trump is innocent of raping children, that bombing Iran is justified because of their threat to attack us first, and that the United States is not rapidly being refashioned into an authoritarian regime.
I’m sure this is the case in all 50 states.
In the U.S., you could no more get a conviction under these circumstances than you could fly to the moon on a surfboard.
Bertrand Russell has been dead for more than half a century, as so we can only speculate as to what he’d have to say about the Trump MAGA base.
If these people are anything, they’re cock-sure that God sent Trump to save our country from ruination by the radical left.
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