Trump Immune from Prosecution

At what price the American constitution? Setting a dangerous precedent for an ex-President?

There is a common idiom in our world today that goes, ‘The Law is an Ass’, the full quote of which from Charles Dickens reads, ‘If the Law Supposes That, Then the Law is an Ass. An Idiot’, which seems to fit quite admirably right now with the recent ruling from the US Supreme Court that ex-president, Donald Trump, is partially immune from criminal prosecution. Of course, the Orange one and his Republican team are hailing this, ‘A legal victory’ in his race to reclaim the keys to the Oval Office, with Biden deputy campaign manager, Quentin Fulks ranting, ‘Immune, Immune, Immune. They just handed Donald Trump keys to a Dictatorship’.

At what cost is all of this to Democracy and common decency everywhere though?

Indeed, what is it saying when a man that has committed a felony, stolen official secrets whilst in office, and who generally stuck a metaphorical middle finger up to democratic process in America, can be ruled immune like this and still be judged a viable candidate to run what is arguably the most powerful country on the planet?

Officially, the US judges, three of whom were actually appointed by Trump, ruled 6-3 that a President has immunity from prosecution in regards acts carried out in an official capacity, but not those carried out in an unofficial capacity, with the three opposing the ruling strongly expressing a ‘Fear for our Democracy’, and Justice Sonya Sotomayer further declaring that the President is now a ‘King Above the Law’, which nicely mirrors the case of one, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, right here in the UK.

If you will recall, Johnson literally took the P**s out of everyone in the UK, lied prolifically, broke umpteen rules, regulations, and even laws whilst in office, and yet not one drop of the proverbial shit stuck to his arrogant and self-important backside, with many a Tory to this day even calling for his reinstatement as leader of the Conservative party.

What can we draw from this though when two such people rise to the positions of utmost power unreined and free to do as they wish?

As someone once so eloquently said – ‘When a Clown moves into a Palace, he does not become King. The Palace becomes a Circus’.

Cue the Carnival music…