Welcome back to DumptyTrumpty dot org. Today we’re going to discuss the Trump versus USA [SCOTUS] decision about the immunity granted to the president, the executive branch, the White House. (Those are all interchangeable terms.) But first, some sports news: The U.S. lost to Uruguay out of the Americas soccer championship called Copa, we’re in day four of Wimbledon, day six of the Tour de France, which will not enter Paris this year as the city prepares for the Olympics, where the opening ceremony occurs Friday, July 26th at noon. Central Standard Time.
It’s the 4th of July in the turmoil of the previous week continues to roll into this week. [Stars and Stripes Forever playing in the background] Biden Update: President Biden came up with an excuse for his Rick Perry debate night failure. Namely, that he was worn out after making two European trips and a flight out to L.A. He was home 11 days before the June 27th debate. He said he should have listened to his staff advice against traveling. The BBC reports, however, his family blames his staff for him being ill prepared for the debate.
I swear I couldn’t make this stuff up. I’m starting to wonder if the Democrats would prefer losing the White House than keeping it.
The turbulence picked up Monday, July 1st, with a decision from the Supreme Court on Trump’s application for complete immunity, argued on April 25th of 2024 for the 6-3 decision. Six Conservative Catholics voted to grant Trump immunity in almost every situation as long as he can claim it’s official business.
Folks, this is we’re throwing-up-barricades, blocking streets, carrying signs in every city across the nation. Of course, we’d have to apply for peaceful assembly, protest permits, but this is throw-the -tea-in-the-water time. It looks like we, the people, in order to form a more imperfect union, have had our revolution in large measure eroded. And Americans who think an unemployed quarterback who takes a knee is what is wrong with America have their heads up what we in the Army used to call your “fourth point of contact” when falling, your derriere.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is huge in terms of what it means to be American. This is bigger than Roe and Dobbs, bigger than Brown versus Board of Education. The president can now tell the Department of Justice who he wants prosecuted and his motives for ordering prosecutions. persecutions really, are no longer admissible in court, and neither are staff emails, tweets, phone calls, etc. It is now legal to use the White House to persecute opponents and if charged with abuse of power, the evidence of such abuse is no longer admissible at trial. In 1789, when the Constitution draft was approved, Ben Franklin was asked “What type of government have we established?” He answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Today Benjamin would say “a banana republic if you want it.” I spent 5 hours yesterday digging into this decision which you can find at WWW.SupremeCourt.gov/opinions and it’ll be in the list of the July 1st, 2024 groupings. I’ll put it on my resources page for you at DumptyTrump.org
In its decision, the court is concerned with ensuring the President is enabled to, I quote, “carry out his constitutional to personal duties without undue caution”, something Trump specifically asked for. And they gave it. Never mind that 45 other presidents have successfully performed that job unhampered by “undue caution.” In other words, they were MEN, not big babies, needing water wings before they jumped into the deep end. The court caved in. “It’s okay, baby Huey, Mommy will make sure you stay safe from the imagined enemies.
I mean, really!
continuing to page four of the decision, which is only eight pages (119 if you get through the opinions of all the justices.) On page four they state what we already know: “As for president’s unofficial acts, there is no immunity.” Things like…Monica Lewinsky, Stormy Daniels, falsifying bank loan applications, etc.
Geniuses that they are the court said they recognize the difficulty in distinguishing between official and unofficial behavior.
[SPOOF] ‘Well, I don’t know. He was banging that prime minister’s wife up in the Lincoln Room. Is that official or is it unofficial Business? Golly!”
They signaled President Trump that he has a way out when or if he’s ever accused. “Just say it was official business. Let the prosecutors figure it out. But besides all of that, Donald, we’ve also ruled that whatever your motives were, we made those inadmissible at trial, too. So you’re safe there too.”
Do you remember, Mr. Trump, when you asked President Zelinsky to dig up dirt on patriotic Joe Biden in exchange for inviting him to the White House? That quid pro quo deal?
[Mick Mulvaney]: And that is absolutely appropriate… You just described is a quid pro quo.
Mick: We do that all the time with foreign policy and I have news for everybody. Get over it.
All legal!
It gets better. Want to hear what else they said? I’m quoting here. Straight out of page five. Listen to the first word of the quote. Ready? [pause]
Trump. “Trump is absolutely immune from prosecution for the alleged conduct involving his discussion with Justice Department officials.” The first word was not President, was not The Executive, was not White House staff. It was “Trump.” I mean, they aren’t even making any bones about their true motive. They’re Trumpers. They don’t even try to camouflage their Freudian slip. This new law was written for Trump, but applies to all presidents. Can you say “In the tank’?? The court just flipped off America. Me and you, The big old bird. F* you. They told us that it is no American voter’s business what Trump said among co-conspirators within the Department of Justice.
So begins our version of the secret state police. Translated in German. Geheime Staatpolizei. GESTAPO for short.
[CLIP: The Gestapo was the secret state police force of the Third Reich, created by combining existing political police agencies. The organization was tasked with identifying and neutralizing political opposition to the Nazi regime.]
Making no bones about creating laws that redefined the presidency, the geniuses once again on page six, made their allegiance personal. Quote “Trump is presumptively immune from prosecution,” for attempting to…
Okay, here’s a multiple choice test for you folks
A. for attempting to a pressure the vice president in his certification duties.
B. Encourage the Vice-President to break the law and violate his oath.
C. Help trump pull off a coup d’etat, insurrection or
D. All of the above.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. The answer: D All of the above.
Putting lipstick on a pig or a barbarian in a tux, the court said, “Let’s see if the district court says such a prosecution would cause a disruption in the White House if it would, then it cannot be prosecuted!”
Don’t we geniuses look wise sending this back to the lower court with such a stupid question?
Also, they asked the lower court to determine whether Trump’s tweets and speeches were official or not. What? Are you, stupid?? The nine of you can’t figure it out so you send it back to three lower court judges?
At least on page seven, the court rejected the silly request of Trump insisting that a President could only be charged if he had already been found guilty in an impeachment. They even soft shoe that decision as if to avoid irritating the Donald.
After all this nonsense Chief Justice Roberts on page eight blows Smoke up our ass and states anyway what 235 years of Americans believed until this week: “The president is not above the law.” Dude!! You just invented several different ways to help Trump I mean, future presidents, get around the law.
Back in 1789, Virginia sent a man named George Mason as their delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. His words were: “If strong and extensive powers are vested in the executive, and that executive consists of only one person, the government will, of course, degenerate into a monarchy.”
A US history professor told me that in many ways, this decision places fewer restrictions on presidential authority than existed on King George III in Britain in 1776.
Absorb that. Let it sink in.
A US history professor told me that in many ways, this decision places fewer restrictions on presidential authority than existed on King George III in Britain in 1776.
One small good thing is that Justice Barrett, Amy Coney Barrett, dissented with Section three. That’s the Roman numeral III, paragraph C, which says Evidence of wrongdoing within or among the executive branch, emails, conversations, etc., cannot be introduced at trial. Even a bribery trial, in a bribery trial, you can’t show there’s no quid pro quo. None of that can be evidence. She dissented, saying “blinding a jury could hamstring the prosecution.” Duh. That’s obviously what your other conservative Catholics intended Justice Amy.
That’s as far as I can go with calling it Good. She still voted yes. Seems to me if there were any point of a decision I disagreed with, I would be obligated to vote no, All or Nothing. But Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants it both ways to raise her dissent but vote yes with the other five boys. She shares their same shame. Imagine if she had voted morally and courageously: the decision would have been 5-4.
Had that arrogant low life Clarence Thomas recused himself, the decision would have been 4-4. Ties go to the defendant, Trump gets nothing.
What a disaster. I bet they all sleep on Trump pillowcases at night. You know what this reminds me of? Reminds me of the Catholic hierarchy. How so? Well, the Supreme Court focuses on avoiding creating stress within the White House. This reminds me of bishops and cardinals who insist it’s a greater error to falsely accuse an innocent priest than it is to investigate claims of wounded children. Pisses me off…that these six justices cooperate in covering up crimes of a protestant so-called president. Should surprise no one.
There is some hope. If you want a feel good about America, go read the opinions of justice Sotomayor and Jackson. They’re on your side. And I am, too. This 4th of July. Think more today about our nation beyond hot dogs, hamburgers and tater salad. Be safe with your fireworks. I’ve got bottle rockets and firecrackers I’ve been collecting. I’ve also been gathering stupid things that Trump says, says, or MAGA people say and I’m going to start making them part of a podcast. So there’ll be one or two stupid things, Trump says. You can follow us at DumptyTrumpty.org and even contact me there.
Thanks for your time. This time. Until next time. Have a great week!