MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU MISSED TODAY:
In case you missed this today, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked perhaps the best question of the day that shows the hypocrisy of the left in prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
During oral arguments on presidential immunity, Justice Thomas showed with a question that although absolute immunity is not clearly stated in the US Constitution for the US President, all of them have enjoyed absolute immunity, and none has been prosecuted for clear crimes they committed at home or abroad.
“In not so distant past, the presidents or certain presidents have engaged in various activities, coups or Operation Mongoose when I was a teenager, and yet there were no prosecutions. Why?” the 75-year-old African American, who is not considered black by the left because he’s a conservative, asked
“If what you’re saying is right, it would seem that that would have been ripe for criminal prosecution of someone,” he told the Justice Department lawyer Mr. Michael Dreeben.
The government lawyer then responded, shockingly and outrageously,
“So, Justice Thomas, I think this is a central question. The reason why there have been not been prior criminal prosecutions is that there were no crimes.”
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. Nothing is as outrageous and false as that statement.
During the same hearing, Justice Samuel Alito wondered why Trump is the only former President charged, and asked, “What about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II, couldn’t that have been charged?”
The same DOJ lawyer, Michael Dreeben, who claimed there were no crimes committed by former Presidents, then responded, “Today, yes.”
MY TAKE: Today’s heading exposed one fundamental thing about the powers of a US President: they are almost absolute while in power, even though the Constitution has not explicitly granted absolute powers to the President.
The proof is none has been prosecuted for coups, for bombing civilians to death all around the world, for toppling government, for lying, for their words or speech, none, until now, with Trump.
Until now, with Trump. What do they fear?