On February 3, 2024, on this Blog, a call was made for President Biden to undergo cognitive impairment tests to prove that he is capable of continuing as President, and therefore able to run again for that same office.
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8182703650793673539/6048582028204971806
We don't need new tests of Biden's mental acuity as the cognitive impairment tests have now been run. These tests were effectively run via the recent debate between Trump and Biden. Biden failed those tests. He is so obviously impaired that he needs to immediately resign and let Vice President Kamala Harris run the country until the next presidential election and until the next president takes office. Biden needs to never run again to become the President of the United States. His career needs to end, right now.
Biden won't resign. The hubris is incredible. The Democrats allege that Trump will behave like a king once in office, especially now that the Supreme Court of the United States has said that a president cannot be charged with a crime stemming from official acts committed while he was in office. In light of this, what is Biden doing? Is he not behaving like the Office of the President of the United States is his own personal fiefdom? Who does this man think he is?
Biden may say that he needs to run as he is the only person who can defeat Trump. Prior to the debate, that was a valid point. After the debate, there are almost no political polls that suggests that this is true. See here...
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden
Prior to the debate, Trump led Biden in the polls by under one percentage point. (Note - at this point in the election cycle prior to the 2020 presidential election, Biden led Trump by a whopping 9%!) Since the debate, Trump's lead has grown to well above 3%, which is outside most normal margins of error in public opinion polls, which suggest that Biden cannot possibly beat Trump now. Trump also leads Biden in every battleground state where Biden must win in the majority of these states or he cannot continue in his present job.
What is happening, and what these polls reflect is that the undecided voters and the independent voters are moving to Trump in the realization that Biden is not competent to continue as president. Once these minds have been changed, it is close to impossible to change them back. Biden may have already handed Trump the next election as a result of his inexplicable hubris.
(Note - Trump has recently edged Biden in the public opinion polls but millions of Americans would obviously still prefer an addled and incompetent Biden to a lying and criminal Trump. Where would Nikki Haley be in the polls in this situation if she has beaten Trump in the Republican presidential nomination battle! Without Trump's baggage, it is suggested here that she could have at least a ten percentage point lead on Biden at this point!)
So if Trump wins, will he and can he behave like a king as the Left and the Democrats have suggested?
Commentary on Trump v the United States...
The United States Supreme Court has declared, as noted above, that presidents are immune from prosecution stemming from official acts while in office, and they sent the issue of what this means - as in, what are and what are not "official acts" - to the lower courts where Trump faces a range of criminal prosecutions. See here...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-immunity-official-acts/
The Left and the Democrats are aghast at this ruling, claiming that Trump will be able to do things such as order the arrest of political opponents and impose a military-enforced curfew in the USA to quell popular opposition to his rule.
Really?
The Supreme Court confirmed the obvious, which is that official acts of the president should not attract criminal indictment. That's it. Were they supposed to say the opposite, which is that official acts can result in criminal charges? If that were the case, then many US presidents would have been in serious trouble, as the USA has committed a range of crimes in pursuit of its interests throughout the centuries.
For example, it is actually illegal in international law to drop missiles on the heads of people in countries against which the missile-dropping country is not at war. President Obama personally ordered the murder of some 3,797 people via drone strikes, of which the USA will admit at least 324 of the dead persons were civilians. (Note - these people were all civilians, but the majority who were killed were suspected terrorists. These people did not get a day on court - they got death from above.)
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
Here is an excellent summary of how many people were killed by drone strikes under Obama in countries against which the United States was not officially at war, and in one country - Pakistan - that was actually an ally.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush/
President Obama also ordered the murder of at least one American citizen in these drone strikes. The President of the United States ordering the murder of a US citizen is not a legal act, even if that citizen had become a radicalize lunatic. Unless the lowers courts will to say that the President of the United States is allowed to murder American citizens as an official act - and they won't - then Obama is a murderer. (BTW - the then President Trump actually ordered an increase in drone strikes once he became President, and he relaxed the requirement to report the number of deaths from those strikes. Nonetheless, there is no record of him ordering the deaths of any Americans.)
The justices of the Supreme Court said that the president is immune from prosecution for official acts. They did not say that illegal acts somehow become legal as long as the president orders them into effect, which is how the Left and the Democrats are interpreting the ruling. They also did not say that anyone following an illegal order was immune from prosecution...only the President.
So no, the President cannot assume that ordering the shooting of a political opponent is now legal because he ordered it. Murder is still a crime, no matter how it comes about, and murdering a political opponent is presumably not an official act, although it will be up the lower courts to confirm this.
Then again, there is a chance that the lower courts won't do this and that they will allow for things such as murder and mass illegal incarceration as long as the president orders these things in his capacity as the president. This is the nightmare scenario that the Left and the Democrats thinks is actually possible.
Thinking that the lower courts will not interpret "official acts" to include such things as murder is showing faith in the American system of justice and governance - something the Left and the Democrats are failing utterly to do on this issue. At this point, the lower courts have yet to rule on what are and what are not "official acts".
We shall see.
Fearless Prediction!
This is July 12, 2024.
Biden will resign from the presidential electoral race on Monday, July 15, 2024.
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