Does the Constitution even apply to Donald Trump? If he wins, probably not

Does the Constitution even apply to Donald Trump? If he wins, probably not
It seems absurd — because it is. But the Supreme Court's immunity decision means Trump can literally do anything

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Columnist
Published October 22, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) Donald J. Trump infamously called for the termination of the Constitution when he was seeking to be declared the “RIGHTFUL WINNER” of the 2020 election in December of that year.

“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he wrote on Truth Social.

If Trump wins the election next month, that wouldn’t even be necessary, because the six Republican-appointed members of the Supreme Court did that for him on July 1 of this year when they decided his petition seeking immunity from prosecution in his favor in Trump v. United States.

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There is one gigantic omission in the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Trump v. United States. They somehow forgot the implications of their decision found in the fourth clause of Article II, Section 3, which states that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” That is, if a president’s official acts are immune from prosecution and oversight by the Congress, which the court's decision also makes clear, then a president is a law unto himself. How can a man who has been given the power, in effect, to unilaterally make law also make sure that he “takes care” that any such laws are “faithfully executed,” since he is the one executing them?

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So here we go: We’ve got a law that needs to be faithfully executed, the one against defrauding the United States by conspiring to interfere with its official function, that being the election and certification of a president; and we’ve got the man who should be ensuring that this law be faithfully executed — that is, not violated — engaged in wholesale violation of the law himself. ................(more)

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