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Where is the "total immunity" clause in the Constitution? [1]

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Date: 2023-12-22  

I’ve read the Constitution several times and I just can’t find where it says the President doesn’t have to follow any laws and can do whatever he wants. Yet Trump is using this argument costing millions of taxpayer dollars to pay judges and prosecutors to figure it out. What am I missing here? I get that the FBI has some precedent of not putting a President in jail during office, but that is also just an interpretation by… the Justice Department? Trump’s not in office anyway!

HOW IS THIS A THING?

How is it that something that clearly cannot be true is stopping Trump’s criminal case? Are there any lawyers in the house that can explain this to me?

If Trump can claim absolute immunity can Biden stage an insurrection if he loses too? Or can he just start killing off Republican congressmen and woman now so Democrats can get Congress back? Or can Obama run again as one of Trumps lawyers suggested? What the hell is going on?

While we’re at it can a former president just make up a word like “absolute immunity” and people have to go and ask the supreme court if it’s a real thing? We all know he just pulled that out of his ass, why is anyone taking this seriously?

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