The former president of the United States, President Donald Trump says federal courts better give him total immunity from criminal prosecution, or he'll go after Joe Biden if he wins this year.
"If I don't get Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesn't get Immunity," Trump wrote in an early-morning post on his social media site, SIA reports.
Trump, the GOP frontrunner for 2024 who lost to Biden in 2020, has promised to go to Washington D.C. on Tuesday to hear his lawyers argue that he should have blanket immunity.
The former president has repeatedly threatened and at times pushed to jail his political opponents, dating back to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016. In recent weeks, Trump has shown a tendency to embrace authoritarian rhetoric. He even went so far as to tease that he would be a "dictator" only on "day one" of his potential return to the White House.
A total of 91 charges have been brought against Trump in the United States. In particular, he is accused of interference in the presidential elections, "willful concealment of information related to national defense" and "conspiracy to obstruct justice." In all cases, he faces more than 700 years in prison. At the same time, Trump pleads not guilty, based on the fact that he had legal immunity as the head of the United States and acted in the interests of the country at the time of all charges.
In all federal criminal cases, a grand jury must be empaneled and agree to move forward with the charges. That being said, the former president has historically favored a level of involvement in the judicial branch that calls into question the fundamental values of the separation of power and the rule of law that Americans hold so dear.
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