whether he has to follow the law, like anyone else would have to. so i think we don t need to be alarmist on that front. but as ruth says, things are always worse than you think they are going to be, once a dictator gets hold. and we know from some of the early comments that trump has made, and some of his planning, that he would plan to completely corrupt the law, to disrupt the justice department, to turn it in a political arm of the presidency, rather than a quasi-independent body that looks at criminal cases, and engages in prosecution based on the facts and the law. so there is significant reason for alarm, whether he succeeds with this motion to dismiss the criminal case based on presidential immunity or not. reporter: i always wonder, ruth, how much of this is legal. because what we saw was a legal argument the other day. and how much of this was donald trump. they ve been saying that they ve been able to campaign, he said no obligation to be in court when he was there on tues
youtube channel for substack channel, and newsletter. channel. cavity is a washington post thanks to both columnist, thank you both for of you for continuing continuing your efforts. this. reference coming, up coming, up the the pressure is mounting for pressure is mounting for the biden the reelection reelection campaign to shore up campaign. from support from a pit support of a black electorate. a black electorate, a critical a critical voting bloc voting bloc from the propelled by the white house in 2020, white house in 2020. and one that he will need one he will to win again it is need to win again this november. plus, november. 2023 marks this the hottest year marks the ever recorded hottest year recorded, by what scientists are what scientists are calling calling, an and astonishing astonishing margin, margin with no clear with no clear explanation as to explanation as to why. why. and later, and later, he s telling us what he he is telling us what he plans to do, plans to do, an
georgia secretary of state in 2020. and no vowed he would again be able to do that withmpunity in the next midterm election in 2026, or perhaps even in 2028, when perhaps he d be inclined to run for a third presidential term. we ve already seen club trump pledge reputation, trying to go after biden and attorney general fani willis, to name a few. just this, week trump warned that there would be quote, bedlam, in the country if the charges against him resulted in him losing the election. with complete immunity, what there is there to prevent him from having more of a political pressure and bribery and violence if the court rules in favor of trump on the matter of immunity it would be giving him through very dangerous ingredients. he would prove embody cannot be prosecuted. it would mean that he will not, as his lawyer, john sour, said, look over his shoulder and second guess potential illegal activity, because he will have no fear prosecution, and he will feel vindicated in his
the landscape here, trump is not going after people there is not concerned about. he only targets people he feels like might be a potential threat. the fact that he won after ted cruz because he was concerned about ted cruz eight years ago, and going with the birther attack, you know, we re doing that and he suggests that he s probably seen some internal polling suggesting that the gap is narrowing between her candidacy and his own. and what we look forward to this and elsewhere, i think we are reasons to believe that they have a strong second base candidate. we are also based the other day we saw nikki haley not give a caused the civil war, because she doesn t want to alienate goers in the event as a minneapolis to donald trump, and she gets to be the main candidate. but here s the interesting thing that came out of this morning s polling. it shows that half, nearly half of nikki haley s backers would vote for joe biden over donald
tuesday about the novel nature of john sour s claims at the third circuit court, and how they mix the political and legal. but let s take this one about looking over once shoulder. donald trump is making the argument, or his lawyers are making the argument there will be a floodgate of things that will happen to presidents based on all the decisions that they make, while in office, if you do not hold the president immune. we re talking about criminal behavior. at least that s what we should be, presidents, i don t know that there s anything wrong with the idea that the president might look over their shoulder if they re going to commit a crime. we would kind of like them not to commit crimes as well. yeah, i think that s fair. and the remarkable thing of sours argument is that, he had a far more modest sort of attacked. he could ve conceded that some of judge porn s hypotheticals or beyond the scope of the president. no president should ever order seal team six to assassinate