• @Doomsider
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    704 days ago

    How the fuck can they argue presidential immunity when he was not fucking president at the time. SCOTUS said immunity for official acts as president. He was not president and therefore not an official act.

    The amount of legal and mental gymnastics it takes to not sentenced this sack of shit to some real time is fucking epic. I can’t believe our entire legal system rolls over and plays dead for Aotus.

    I guess they have proven him right though. It is all a show and none of it is real anymore. Pathetic.

    • qantravon
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      154 days ago

      It’s because SCOTUS also said anything in the aura of an official act can’t be used as evidence. So if the president, as a private individual, does something illegal, but the only evidence is from an official presidential communication, sorry, can’t use it. It’s bullshit, but that’s what they ruled.

      Trump’s team was claiming that key evidence was subject to this immunity. But the judge completely shot them down.

      • @Doomsider
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        74 days ago

        I mean what you say is logical except for the fact he was not President when this happened. Hence the mental/legal gymnastics unless I am missing something.

        • tb_
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          If the evidence comes from ‘official presidential communication’, it can’t be used; is what was said.