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Salon
Salon
Politics
Igor Derysh

Trump wants total immunity for "crimes"

Former President Donald Trump took his case for presidential immunity to Truth Social, arguing that a president “must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him/her to properly function.”

Trump, whose presidential immunity claims have been repeatedly shot down and are now being reviewed by a D.C. appeals court, argued that without immunity, “any mistake, even if well intended, would be met with almost certain indictment by the opposing party,” in a 2 am all-caps post.

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