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04/07/2024

Mr. Trump's next step will be to declare that the incitement to invade the Capitol was an "official act"

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled last Monday «The President is not above the law, but under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office

Trump had claimed «absolute immunity» for all his actions, but according to the opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, «a far broader immunity than the limited one we have recognized.»  This did not prevent Trump’s campaign consider the decision as «total immunity.»

The Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower courts to decide which parts of Donald Trump's federal election interference charge fall into each category.

Whatever, these are just legal skirmishess in the American election war whose status Historian Niall Ferguson described in The Free Press as follows: «The Republicans remain the captives of the personality cult—the “MAGA movement”—that has formed around Trump, (...) The Democrats remain the captives of the Donorcrats—the wealthy friends of the Clintons and the Obamas, many of whom are almost as old as Joe Biden, all of whom despise him, and none of whom could come up with a better candidate in 2020.»