Trump threatens to 'blackmail' Biden if he doesn't make charges go away

"If a President does not have Immunity, the Opposing Party, during his/her term in Office, can extort and blackmail the President by saying that, 'if you don’t give us everything we want, we will Indict you for things you did while in Office,' even if everything done was totally Legal and Appropriate," Trump posted on Truth Social.

Leave it to Donnie to misrepresent what the ruling means. Presidents still enjoy lots of immunity, especially where it pertains to their "color of office" duties. They just don't have total immunity from anything and everything, especially where it doesn't pertain to their duties. We do not have monarchs or dictators.

So no, you can't just shoot someone on Fifth Ave and declare Presidential Immunity to avoid justice, and you can't just steal government secrets to use as business leverage, and you can't make phone calls to heads of states to "find votes," and you can't incite an insurrection and claim plausible deniability.

Eat shit. I hope you get no sleep because of these rulings.

Ah yes, the age old "if you are facing felonies, threaten to blackmail the US President trick."

I'm sure that will work.

His uh, posts sound really desperate. 🍿

Can we just, lock him up already?

Please? Or at the very least break his jaw so he has to shut the fuck up while it heals?

We all know he’s guilty. We all know he’s a treasonous insurrectionist. We all know he belongs in prison.

We all know that any normal person would have been hanged by now.

Lmao

He's blackmailing him with blackmail?

That's some real 4d chess, man.

Just this whole attitude towards the thing shows how crooked he is. As far as I can tell, Biden has tried to remain hands-off from the Justice Dept and just let them do their own thing to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. And I believe that's more or less been how most Presidents have tried to behave since maybe Nixon EXCEPT for Trump, who seems to view it as his own personal legal hit-squad, to be used for just litigating people he doesn't like, instead of... y'know, administering justice. He completely misunderstands the purpose of government and really should not be allowed anywhere near the position. He should be rotting in prison now, he's a complete shitstain on history.

Perfectly reasonable thing to do for someone that clearly never did anything wrong, right?

Threatening the president is a federal crime, right?

I’d hate to say it, but the very act of voting for trump is, at this point, an act of evil.

Biden should tell him he’ll pardon him if he drops out and then not pardon him.

Biden would probably get charged with murder because that would surely cause the inevitable aneurysm.

Headline is technically true but this is a non story.
Trump is mad about the appeals court ruling that he isn't immune from prosecution and is lashing out.

That's going to be really hard to do while you are rotting in custody, Donnie.

If I threatened Biden with a dirty look, I’d have secret service at my door. But if Trump says he’ll commit a crime, no one does anything.

This really encourages me to want to not obey laws.

Difference between most Democrats and Republicans is that if a Democrat committed a crime another Democrat would want them prosecuted, same if a Republican committed a crime. Whereas if a Republican committed a crime other Republicans want the charges dropped and if a Democrat committed a crime they’d be calling for the death penalty.

Crimes are bad, mmm-kay. Doesn’t matter what side you’re on, mmm-kay. So, let’s not be bad, mmm-kay.

Not a lawyer and not sure if this applies here, but the threat of blackmail itself seems like it should constitute a crime:

18 U.S.C. § 873 (2021)
§873. Blackmail

Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Your boss, Sleepy Joe, is a man with considerable means and connections, and if he's what you say he is, a communist with the power to imprison you, your plan is to blackmail this person?

Obama, Bush, and soon, Crooked Joe Biden, would all be in PRISON

Don’t threaten me with a good time! Virtually all U.S. presidents have caused thousands of civilians to be killed in wars we shouldn’t be fighting.

He's asking Biden to pardon him... "or else..."

Do what I say or ill do something horrible!

Honey, that's already blackmail.

That's what Innocent People do!

Good. Get unhinged you fuck.

Realize this, fatty donnie, you have a cap of voters. A cap which, you can't even guarantee that you'll meet by the general election should your ass somehow squeak by being on the ballot in every state. You're going to lose because you're a loser in denial, in life, in election and as a human being.

Oh and I bet Donnie has shit through several diapers too throughout this trial. Yeah, imagine that, electing a diaper-shitting president. Good on ya, republitards.

Is he threatening the president? Doesn't that usually end with a visit from FBI Secret Service?

Edit: Thank you for the correction...twistypencil?

If you find crimes worthy of putting any of them in prison then do it. Dont threaten us with a good time.

Everything about this is just awful. The fact that someone so criminal and so thuggish is exactly who about 30% of this country thinks should be President - and they might get their way due to our broken election system (electoral college means a minority get to choose the leader of the free world).

Even after being president for 4 years, he still doesn't understand what a president can and cannot do.

Does he not realize that if he gets his wish, there would be nothing stopping Biden from having him assassinated as he walks out of the courthouse?

Next thing is that he demands a presidential pardon from Biden for his crimes. I can already see him whining on his loser social insurrectionist network.

Oh fuck off President Piss Tape. You loser.

LOCK HIM UP

Oh dear another crime.

That... certainly is a tactic... I bet it's info about his son everyone is already aware of.

Blackmail doesn't work if everyone knows you're being blackmailed!

he won't blackmail, he will have-murdered Biden, in 2025.

Anyone who can't see that coming is wearing rose glasses.

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This ought to be #92 but probably won't be.

ah yes, a wonderful day to be able to read, i am going to go back into my hole now...

😂😂

“do what I say or get blackmailed” so is that blackmailing with threating to blackmail someone? Did he technically just publicly blackmail POTUS? I have a feeling that's not fully legal.

I love his "I'm bored" stupid faces hes forced to make when in court 😭🤣 not even in his wildest dreams he imagined himself in that position and the DC jan 6 criminal onel seems to be primed for this summer 🤩🍿

Are there any kind of standards on sources here? Raw Story is garbage, and this article basically boils down to a clickbait headline about a Truth Social post.

Obama, Bush, and soon, Crooked Joe Biden, would all be in PRISON.

Promise?

I have a shitbag neighbor that sent me blackmail. Now his friends follow me all over town and shit-talk me to anyone that helps me in stores.

what a fucking loser my neighbor. he voted for trump and plays his dirty games. but he still smells walks and talks loser just like trump.

daddy vlady must have delivered something. I wonder if it's anything good or if it's the usual nothingburger.

I'm starting to think I should take what this guy says with a grain of salt

He is just making things worse for himself.

That’s not blackmail, it’s extortion.