About trump's immunity fantasy

[Horatius]

@eschrodinger

I’m not sure that I fully disagree with some concept of immunity applying to the president’s acts while they are in office. But it would require a bit more refinement. I think it would have to be official acts as President, not as a private citizen or candidate, and yes, I think if they were impeached and convicted for such an act, then they could be prosecuted makes sense.

And of course, that’s pretty much the system the US has now, Trump’s protestations to the contrary. No President has ever been “indicted” for things that were within the limits of their actual job as President, even including Trump. All the shit he’s been indicted for are actual crimes which had nothing to do with his official duties to the United States.

[Mr.Duality]

@Mr.Duality

The defense department did a study that found active duty members to be not politically active enough to matter. Veterans, on the other hand, are more frequently radicalized. Can’t provide the cite until I get home tonight.

Here’s that cite I promised earlier. We don’t need to worry about the US military being used for a coup.

" Troops do not have an extremism problem, but veterans do, study finds" link