Published January 10, 2024
Donald Trump tore into President Biden and warned of ‘bedlam’ if his prosecution is allowed to go forward, in an angry statement just minutes after his lawyer argued in court he enjoys absolute immunity from his time as president.
Trump made the comments as he called the Biden administration a ‘threat to democracy’ and once again claimed to have uncovered ‘tremendous voter fraud’ despite multiple court findings rulings against his and his allies’ claims.
‘It’s very unfair when a political opponent is prosecuted by the DOJ, by Biden’s DOJ. So they’re losing in every poll, losing in almost every demographic…numbers came out today that are really very mind-boggling if you happen to be Joe Biden,’ Trump said at a Washington, D.C. hotel.
‘And I think they feel this is the way they’re going to try and win and that’s not the way it goes. It’ll be Bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said it’s the opening of a Pandora’s Box,’ Trump said.
He was picking up on a phrase his lawyer John Sauer used in court, and one his lawyer John Lauro made alongside Trump,
‘If we adopt what the Special Counsel wants, if we adopt what President Biden wants, then we open the Pandora’s box to political prosecution after political prosecution after political prosecution,’ said Lauro. ‘In fact, Joe Biden could be prosecuted for trying to stop this man from becoming the next President of the United States,’ he said.
‘It’s a very sad thing that’s happened with this whole situation. When they talk about threat to democracy that’s your threat to democracy. And I feel that as a president you have to have immunity,’ Trump said.
A reporter shouted a question to Trump after he had completed his remarks about his ‘bedlam’ comment, and whether he would tell them ‘no matter what, no violence.’ Trump walked away without responding.
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Former president Donald Trump, with attorney John Lauro, speaks to the media after the court appearance. AP
Published January 10, 2024
Washington | Donald Trump warned there would be “bedlam” in America if he was convicted of inciting to overthrow the government, insisting that a failure of courts to back his immunity claims would open a “Pandora’s Box” of legal actions against past and future presidents.
The former president on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) attended the US Court of Appeals in a rainy and cold Washington with next to no supporters or protesters waiting for him, just blocks away from the January 6, 2021 Capitol siege.
The court is weighing up whether to consider his argument for immunity over his alleged role in the Capitol attack.
Mr Trump’s lawyers want the court to overturn a lower-court ruling that rejected the former president’s claims of immunity in the Department of Justice’s 2020 election subversion case. Mr Trump claims the legal action is politically driven and he should be immune.
“This is the way they’re going to try and win. And that’s not the way it goes. It will be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box,” Mr Trump told reporters at a press conference following his court appearance.
The former president claimed that the investigation into him was “the real threat to democracy” and that if he didn’t have immunity, then other presidents would be vulnerable.
“As a president, you have to have immunity,” he said, saying that former president Barack Obama could be charged for drone strikes on US citizens or current president Joe Biden could be prosecuted for mismanagement of the southern border.
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Legal experts were skeptical that allowing the charges to go forward would lead to endless prosecutions of ex-presidents. Still, Trump has increasingly framed his bid to return to office as getting “revenge” against political enemies who have wronged him.
Donald Trump greets supporters.
Published January 10, 2024
Washington: Former President Donald Trump has long vowed to prosecute President Joe Biden if Trump wins November’s election and the two trade places. He upped the stakes dramatically Tuesday, contending that if criminal charges against him aren’t dropped, any current and future ex-presidents also could be prosecuted.
“I feel that as a president, you have to have immunity, very simple,” Trump said after a court hearing where a panel of three federal judges seemed deeply skeptical of his attorneys’ arguments that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official business. “It’s the opening of a Pandora’s box and it’s a very, very sad thing that’s happened with this whole situation.”
Trump said Biden might not be the only one targeted. Former President Barack Obama could end up being prosecuted, he said, citing Obama administration drone strikes in the Middle East that killed a U.S. citizen who was identified as a leader of the terrorist group al-Qaida and that man’s 16-year-old son, also a U.S. citizen. In court, Trump’s attorney suggested that former President George W. Bush could be prosecuted for providing false information that launched the Iraq War.
The arguments, related to the federal charges Trump faces for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results, raised new constitutional issues that may only be settled at the U.S. Supreme Court because Trump’s cases mark the first criminal prosecutions of a former president. They also dramatically raised the stakes of Trump’s campaign to portray the charges as politically motivated attacks from Biden that would justify his own retaliation should he return to the White House.
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SOURCE: www.india.com
