“you can do anything. The president has such power. For example, you can close the border.” With these statements, former US president and Republican candidate for the White House, Donald Trump, rejoiced in the power that the presidency grants, ensuring that This allows you to do “everything”.
Trump spoke in Washington, D.C., on Friday at the conservative organization Moms for Liberty’s Merry Warriors Summit, a gathering aimed at educating and empowering parents across the country to stand up for their parental rights.
The powers of a leader are in the spotlight in the United States after the Supreme Court granted partial immunity to Trump on July 1 in the case of the storming of the Capitol in January 2021.
By a vote of six to three, that of the progressive justices, the highest court concluded, without going into much detail, that “a former president is entitled to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts falling within his constitutional authority,” but established that ““There is no immunity for unofficial acts.”
The special prosecutor in charge of investigating the case, Jack Smith, presented a statement on Tuesday new indictment to lower the allegations against Trump in an attempt to conform precisely to that view.
Smith maintained the four previous charges, such as conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, but narrowed some allegations about his plans to subvert elections.
Concretely, according to the newspaper The Washington Postt, removed those related to Trump’s efforts to get the Justice Department to support his claim that there had been Voter Fraud in 2020 Electionin which Democrat Joe Biden won.
The Supreme Court said in July that the former president could not face charges related to his interactions with Justice Department officials, considering that his interaction with the office was part of the powers of his position.
On January 6, 2021, about 10,000 people—mostly Trump supporters—marched on the seat of Congress and about 800 people broke into the building as Biden’s victory was being certified. There were five deaths and nearly 140 police officers were injured.
The New York tycoon said on Friday that he had won the election and that his rival had: “I think we won this election by a wide margin. We got the most votes than anyone elsethan any sitting president in history, and he beat us by a hair,” he concluded.
