{"id":160292,"date":"2023-12-25T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160292"},"modified":"2023-12-28T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T01:44:35","slug":"111644324127516163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/25\/111644324127516163.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Presidential Immunity for me but not for thee&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short Trump: &#8220;Presidents get total immunity. But only me. Biden I will totally prosecute for shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What an asshole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Trump rails against special counsel Jack Smith in Christmas Eve posts&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former president said Biden would be prosecuted without presidential immunity for the way he handled the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and his handling of the U.S. southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in another post that Smith is one of Biden\u2019s \u201cmisfits and thugs\u201d who are going after him \u201cat levels of persecution never seen before in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called election interference. Merry Christmas!\u201d Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a translate=\"no\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/4376510-trump-rails-against-special-counsel-jack-smith-in-christmas-eve-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"ellipsis\">thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefin<\/span><span class=\"invisible\">g-room\/4376510-trump-rails-against-special-counsel-jack-smith-in-christmas-eve-posts\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-dave1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/4376510-trump-rails-against-special-counsel-jack-smith-in-christmas-eve-posts\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Trump rails against special counsel Jack Smith in Christmas Eve posts\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Donald-Trump-Jack-Smith-06.13.23.png?w=1280\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Trump rails against special counsel Jack Smith in Christmas Eve posts<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Former President Trump railed against special counsel Jack Smith again in Christmas Eve posts on his Truth Social account. Trump claimed in one Truth Social post that he is \u201cfully entitled\u201d t\u2026<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-url\">thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/4376510-trump-rails-against-special-counsel-jack-smith-in-christmas-eve-posts\/<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says that if he doesn&#8217;t get full immunity, he&#8217;ll prosecute Biden without it. &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2313,2136,17,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toot","category-elections-2024","category-homeland-security","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12595,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/house_doesnt_cave_on_telc.html","url_meta":{"origin":160292,"position":0},"title":"House doesn&#8217;t cave on telco immunity (yet)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Mar-08 5:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The House passed today -- by 213-197\u00a0-- its version of a spy\/surveillance bill that pointedly does not include the telecommuncations company immunity clause approved by the Senate and demanded by...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/tweetizen-trump-2017-05-18-witch-hunt.html","url_meta":{"origin":160292,"position":1},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-05-18 &quot;Witch Hunt!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-May-17 9:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, Donald, a few more days of puff piece tweets about Coast Guard Academy speeches (where you complained about being treated unfairly[1]), chatting with the Turkish president (before his security guards attacked protesters[2]), US industrial Product surging (but the Dow dropping bigly[3]).But, hey, you were back big time this morning,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32420,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/03\/no-federalism-doesnt-work-this-way.html","url_meta":{"origin":160292,"position":2},"title":"No, Federalism doesn&#39;t work this way","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Feb-13 12:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The USPS certainly ought not be immune to fines from local governments for traffic violations. 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