This is a classic expression of monarchist power, much like《L’état, c’est moi》
Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’
Submitted 3 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Something something Luigi
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“When the President does it, it is NOT illegal!”
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law”
i suspect someone will try to save this country, and it won’t be someone at the top of the current ‘administration’.
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I would say that’s what he meant but from the other side. I don’t read this as him excusing himself. I read it as a message to the followers who may “do something”
grue@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Several have tried already.
Snapz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Luigi tried to save his country. I guess they are wasting time with that trial if no laws were broken…
don@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Then Luigi goes free, easy as.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Every response to that tweet should be a variation of “free Luigi.”
Windhover@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So an assassination would be legal?
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 months ago
By him, yes.
Guidy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t imagine why he bothers, what are they going to do, charge and/or convict him of a felony? They’ve done that… 34 times. It didn’t do shit. I honestly don’t understand why he feels the need to pretend the bullshit he’s doing isn’t illegal/immoral/unconstitutional/etc.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That was a message to his supporters.
sumguyonline@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He isn’t suggesting. He is stating the exact thing the supreme court ruled on. Anyone elected president can do whatever they want no matter how “illegal” and they are immune from prosecution IF what they were doing was in service to the country. This is what Democrats flopped over on that proved to me they are in on it. No supreme court term limits, or adjusting the way judges are appointed. Trump won’t be the worst. The worst likely hasn’t even gotten their public debut yet, they will execute their political opponents, take whatever they want, and rule like a modern Caesar, then maybe the congress will revolt and kill them, but the congress will never return their ill-gotten power, they want it for themselves.
imonk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That should be an inspiration for the next Luigi.
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 3 months ago
After the Supreme Court ruling, Biden should have ordered that hit. It goes to show how unimaginative Dems are
Doom@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
so he’s breaking laws
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 months ago
“I’m trying to save my country from the working class”
Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 months ago
Geez where have I heard that before?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I too can detonate nukes over a city if I say it is to save the country, it would not break any laws whatsoever!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We are saving it from those nasty poors. The billionaires shall inherit the Earth, I believe that’s what it said.
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 3 months ago
another distraction.
what’s this “attempt at saving” he’s trying to grift this time? sovereign wealth funds now that cfpb-something is dismantled?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 months ago
So he’s an “ends justify the means” kinda guy?
Huh. Reminds me of somebody.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He’s probably looking for a final solution to his problem
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The US did not see that coming