If your argument takes a flip the place you point out pedophile clergymen, and you discover you’re on their aspect? You may be the baddies!
In the midst of his a number of legal prosecutions, Donald Trump has been arguing that previous presidents ought to have whole immunity for the whole lot they did in workplace. His reasoning? As president you need to make powerful calls like ordering assaults that kill individuals, and so forth, and should you needed to fear you’d be prosecuted after, your palms can be tied. The factor is, presidents already do have fairly sturdy protections for that sort of factor — actions they take as Commander-In-Chief, that’s.
Of course, the crimes Trump is accused of are actions that had nothing to do together with his presidential duties serving the nation — they had been actions that served himself. He’s being accused of doing issues no elected official ought to ever do as they thwart democracy itself. But in his argument even when a president assassinated a political rival, they’d be protected. So… what would hold them from simply being a dictator? Like, what if Joe Biden was as dangerous as right-wingers wish to say? If the Supreme Court dominated in Trump’s favor, wouldn’t such a corrupt president then simply be capable to have Trump shot and have it accomplished? Seems like even college youngsters may determine this one out.
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But clearly this authorized argument, inane although it’s, can be actually useful to Trump, for the reason that proof appears fairly stacked towards him if he has to face the authorized system the way in which everybody else does. So as a substitute of speaking about what good he’d do for this nation, he’s spending his time on the marketing campaign path beating the drum for whole presidential immunity. And on Sunday he repeated an odd analogy he first made on Truth Social final week.
He’s been speaking about “rogue cops” in relation to his personal scenario. We assume in his thoughts he’s evaluating himself to a Dirty Harry-type whose palms shouldn’t be tied, or he can’t save everybody? Speaking in Rochester, New Hampshire on Sunday, he mentioned:
“But it’s a little bit like the police. So you have a rogue cop. You know what a rogue cop is? Very seldom. But you have bad people. You have people no matter where, no matter what.”
Wait, so the rogue cops he’s speaking about are dangerous? And what? They ought to have immunity so the nice cops can do their jobs? That can be dangerous sufficient. But the analogy he stepped in subsequent was a lot worse. He continued:
“In the church, you have some people that aren’t so good, right? But you have peop– a rogue cop or a bad apple or whatever. And what they do is they make it so that you catch– so that it can’t happen, and therefore everyone else is allowed to commit crimes, murders like at levels that we’ve never seen before.”
“In the church” there are “people that aren’t so good”? Yeah, he’s positively speaking about pedophile clergymen, proper? There are clearly plenty of youth pastors who’ve been accused lately, so it’s not only a Catholic factor. But traditionally there’s been an enormous downside within the Catholic Church wherein clergymen are accused of molesting kids — and as a substitute of defrocking them and turning them into the police, the church has accomplished what? Sweep all of it underneath the rug and relocate the clergymen to a different parish someplace the youngsters don’t know them but. Somewhere else they’ll victimize extra altar boys. (See Best Picture winner Spotlight for a fast information to that horrific scandal.)
See, Trump by accident introduced up a extremely good argument towards whole immunity. Because we completely don’t need clergymen to have absolute safety. We need all of the pedos recognized and locked up. Just like we wish the corrupt cops, the “bad apples” Trump is speaking about to be IDed and to face the justice system. Obviously.
The funnier factor, right here, although additionally scary that this man didn’t even notice it, is that he’s not being accused of being a cop that perhaps goes too far. He’s being accused of committing crimes 100% out of self-interest. So he’s being accused of being a “bad apple.” In Trump’s analogy of the pedo clergymen, HE’S ACCUSED OF BEING A PEDO PRIEST! And he’s arguing he needs to be allowed to go on and commit extra crimes, similar to these clergymen have accomplished.
So yeah, we sincerely hope even his stacked Supreme Court sees by means of the clearly horrific argument he’s making. And we hope it helps them to listen to the pedo priest analogy first…
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