The SCOTUS immunity ruling is REALLY bad. Consider that it applies to every president, not just Biden and Trump. Consider that it not only protects the President from being charged with a crime as a result of an official act, it also prevents official acts from being used as evidence.
This could incentivize criminals to run for President. Consider wealthy pedophiles like Jared Fogle and Jeffery Epstein. There has to be more of them out there, we just don’t know who they are yet. One of these perverts might get the idea that if he was President, then he could indulge his illegal fetishes with impunity.
Consider that the moment he files to run for President, most people are going to give a candidate a huge benefit of the doubt every time an alleged victim steps forward. Her word against his word. So he could make it all the way through a campaign and possibly even win the election before the public figures out that this guy belongs in prison.
But once his hand touches that Bible on January 20th, he doesn’t need to hide who he is anymore. He could tweet out images of child porn and those tweets would be considered official acts. He couldn’t be charged with sharing the images, he couldn’t be charged with having them, and the images couldn’t be used as evidence of the abuse that took place. And as President, he could pardon other child pornographers.
Forget becoming a dictator. This court ruling could enable a President to single-handedly legalize child pornography. And we all have Donald Trump to thank for this ruling.
