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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 23 19:02:42 2023
    Trump presses 'presidential immunity' defense in E. Jean Carroll's
    defamation suit

    The argument resembles the aggressive immunity defense that Trump's
    lawyers are raising in one of his criminal cases.

    A lawyer for Donald Trump told a federal appeals court on Monday that
    the former president should be allowed to assert presidential immunity
    in response to a defamation lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll,
    further pressing his bid to narrow the case in advance of its January
    trial date.

    Trump's argument comes as he is pressing a similarly aggressive
    immunity defense in his federal criminal case stemming from his
    efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Trump is "absolutely immune from prosecution" in that case, his lawyers contended in court papers this
    month -- an argument that special counsel Jack Smith said is in sharp
    conflict with American history and the Constitution.

    In the Carroll case on Monday, Trump lawyer Michael Madaio told a
    three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that
    presidential immunity is "an absolute and non-waivable protection."

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/23/trump-carroll-presidential-immunity-argument-00123072

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  • From rdh@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 25 08:39:16 2023
    I'm pretty sure we all decided around 800 years ago that nobody should
    be above the law. People fought wars about this stuff.

    This clown really doesn't seem to understand that being president is not
    the same as being God-Emperor.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to rdh on Wed Oct 25 12:15:04 2023
    On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 08:39:16 -0500, rdh <rdh@tilde.institute> wrote:

    This clown really doesn't seem to understand that being president is not
    the same as being God-Emperor.

    October 06, 2015

    How Norman Vincent Peale Taught Donald Trump to Worship Himself

    The magnate's biographer explains the spiritual guide behind his
    relentless self-confidence.
    ...
    ...
    Peale's outlook, promoted through his radio shows, newspaper columns
    and articles, and through Guideposts, his monthly digest of
    inspirational messages, fit perfectly into the Trump family culture of
    never hesitating to bend the rules, doing whatever it took to win, and
    never, ever giving up.

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-2016-norman-vincent-peale-213220/

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