To be an American President, is to be a criminal. Every last one of them.
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BooBees@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
Yes, but only for federal crimes, not state charges. It’s kind of a moot act for official acts, because the Supreme Court already stated presidents are immune to prosecution for official acts, so they’d have to pardon themselves for personal criminal acts. Most of those can be charged by a state or on a local level, non federal, so it would be risky. However, practically the US doesn’t have a great appetite for charging and prosecuting Presidents.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
William Henry Harrison
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Funny.
Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Welp, you failed then.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every human is a criminal. Every baby, a criminal. Even plants? You guessed it. Criminals.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
See, this is how Judge Death got his start.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
I could use some schooling this morning. What was Carter’s crime?
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The Carter doctrine was just an expansion and intensification of militarily defending their “national interests” in other people’s countries. More US imperialism.
Arming and training the Afghanis against Russia, who would later become the Taliban. Because the shaw of Iran’s CIA operations blowback didn’t teach anyone any lessons.
Arming the North Yemeni against the Marxist south during the south Yemeni war.
The Camp David Accords that settled the fighting between Egypt and Israel by settling palestinian lands without involving the Palestinians. It was condemned by the UN for not involving the palestinians and for egypt acting on behalf of the arab league without their agreement. It divided the arab league. Denied palestine statehood and avoided international consensus. Look where this lead us today.
There is more, but I have errands to run.
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Fwiw, an Afghani is a unit of currency. An Afghan is a person from Afghanistan.
holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
What crime are you referring to? Giving weapons is not a crime. You could argue it backfired.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What did John Quincy Adams do? I thought he was cool :(
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Seminole War.
He oversaw 30 “treaties” with natives as part of America’s systematic removal of people from his lands.
History writes him as being an advocate who fought for voluntary removal, not the forced relocations, but he was still responsible for stolen native land and colonialism. Bit of a whitewash here as colonialism is colonialism, and he only differed in degree, not principle.
He signed the Treaty of Indian Springs and later admitted the natives were under duress and it was not in good faith. Later treaties added compensation, but was a pittance of the lands true value and Quincy did not believe in Native property rights to begin with, or understand the native concept of land stewardship.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
That bud needed to be nipped at Nixon.