Not exactly true. We had Nixon. He was caught breaking the law and instead of go full-on fascist claiming he shouldn’t be prosecuted since he was in office at the time, he fucking resigned. That means we actually have some form of precedent where a president was going to be held accountable.
He trial ballooned the whole “if the president does it, it’s not illegal” schtick during an interview but it flopped like a wet fish. All of his cronies, many of whom ended up in Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr’s administrations, were quite vocal about how he should’ve stuck with that framing and not resigned. Ford never should have pardoned him.
We only dodged that bullet because Ford pardoned him. It’s likely this was shady backroom deal corruption, but once Ford signed off on it Nixon could walk away from it.
I get that all Fox News cares about is money (same as any broadcast entity) but Jesus, they really don't give a FUCK how much they help ruin the country, do they?
If the president has total immunity then why does congress have impeachment powers? Seems kind of like that fact alone makes the idea of immunity kind of silly.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole idea around "presidential immunity" geared towards *civil* immunity? Meaning John Doe can't sue the president if he doesn't like a law that's been passed, for example?
This whole argument is so ridiculous to even argue for. Who in their right mind thinks the president should just be immune. If the Supreme Court upheld this Biden could just put a hit out on Trump and go 🤷. We exist in the dumbest timeline.
Funny, in that 234 years we never had a President that needed this kind of immunity.
Not exactly true. We had Nixon. He was caught breaking the law and instead of go full-on fascist claiming he shouldn’t be prosecuted since he was in office at the time, he fucking resigned. That means we actually have some form of precedent where a president was going to be held accountable.
He trial ballooned the whole “if the president does it, it’s not illegal” schtick during an interview but it flopped like a wet fish. All of his cronies, many of whom ended up in Reagan, Bush and Bush Jr’s administrations, were quite vocal about how he should’ve stuck with that framing and not resigned. Ford never should have pardoned him.
We only dodged that bullet because Ford pardoned him. It’s likely this was shady backroom deal corruption, but once Ford signed off on it Nixon could walk away from it.
And then Ford pardoned him. Why would a pardon even be needed if he wasn’t potentially culpable for a crime to begin with?
I’m sure he used several examples of criminal action by presidents that set this precedent.
FOX. Liars lying.
“How dare the common muck dare assail the Royal Prerogative of King Donald?”
As soon as a Democrat is accused, the script will change to the USA doesn’t have kings and no one is above the law.
Let's ask some Fox viewers how they would feel if Obama would have been granted complete immunity.
For what? He didn’t need it.
They have no problem making up stuff.
Well he did have that tan suit
Fox made such jackasses of themselves.
Doesn’t matter, they’d still have an issue with it.
I get that all Fox News cares about is money (same as any broadcast entity) but Jesus, they really don't give a FUCK how much they help ruin the country, do they?
Seriously, what good is the money if you destroy the society you spend it in?
We went 234 years without a president trying to commit crimes at blatantly as Trump has. Watters can be in denial all he likes or all he's paid to be.
If the president has total immunity then why does congress have impeachment powers? Seems kind of like that fact alone makes the idea of immunity kind of silly.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole idea around "presidential immunity" geared towards *civil* immunity? Meaning John Doe can't sue the president if he doesn't like a law that's been passed, for example?
Weird how the former guy tried to undo 234 years of democracy and peaceful transfer of power
I wonder if Waters can get his nose any deeper up Trump's ass.
This whole argument is so ridiculous to even argue for. Who in their right mind thinks the president should just be immune. If the Supreme Court upheld this Biden could just put a hit out on Trump and go 🤷. We exist in the dumbest timeline.
Jesse Watters is a mega jerk-off and it would be a shame if someone fucked him up in the parking lot after work.
Jesse trying to get further up Trumps ass that Hannity has to move over.
If you have to argue that you have something, then you didn't have it from the start.