Trump Whines That He Can't Enjoy His Golden Years Without Absolute Immunity From Prosecution

In a post on Truth Social this week, Donald Trump whined about the fact that it would be hard for a former president to enjoy their "golden years or retirement" if they don't get presidential immunity from prosecution. Trump is still pretending that he doesn't understand what the "immunity case" is actually about - it is not going to determine whether a president is immune from prosecution, it will only determine if he is immune from prosecution for this ONE thing. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump proudly proclaimed this week in a panicked series of posts on truth social, that by God if he doesn't get immunity from any and all criminal prosecution, then no president will ever get absolute immunity, which means none of us former presidents that is, will ever get to enjoy their golden years. We don't get to enjoy retirement because we're gonna be prosecuted every other day for all of these horrible things. Here is what Donald Trump said. Again, this is multiple different posts on truth, social. I'm kind of squeezing 'em together, just taking out the greatest hits. Trump started with saying, quote, without immunity, it would be very hard for a president to enjoy his or her golden years of retirement. They would be under siege by radical, out of control prosecutors, much like I am. But without the retirement, if a president does not have immunity, the court will be opening the floodgates to prosecuting former presidents and opposing hostile party will be doing it for any reason all of the time. That sounds like a threat to me. If they take away my immunity, they take away crooked Joe Biden's immunity. Without immunity, it would be very hard for a president to properly function.

So that last statement there, without immunity, it would be very hard for a president to properly function. Why? Because the job of the president of the United States is to constantly break the law. That's, that's what that statement implies. Like, if I don't have immunity from prosecution, how am I gonna do my job? Are you doing that many prosecutable offenses on a daily basis? Like, do, do we need to open broader investigations into what you did while president? Like how many other things did you do that you think you could be prosecuted for if you don't have immunity? I, I think that's a big question that Donald Trump's statement opens up for the public, but we're never gonna get an answer to that. Here's the thing though. Trump is intentionally misconstruing what the entire immunity case is about the case that is currently awaiting a decision from that three judge panel.

Again, you know, they heard the arguments earlier this week. What that case is about is not presidential immunity. The president of the United States, along with members of Congress, house, Senate, you know, they have immunity. The Constitution gives them immunity. What's at issue with Trump's particular case is whether that immunity applies to his acts leading up to January 6th. Specifically, were they the actions of a president of the United States and therefore covered by immunity, or were they the actions of a candidate which would not be covered by immunity? Even if this court comes back and says, Trump does not have immunity from prosecution

On this particular issue, it does not do away with presidential immunity at all. Like it doesn't even touch it. Trump, I have to imagine, knows that. But what he is trying to do is scare enough people out there into thinking that, oh, if I lose immunity, in this case, everybody loses it, nothing but prosecutions from here to eternity. Now, that's not what's going to happen because they are still protected by constitutional immunity. Donald Trump could not be prosecuted for building his southern border wall because that was an action of the President. He could not be sued for implementing his trade war because those were protected actions.