Radio host Charlamagne Tha God has called on President Joe Biden to place former President Donald Trump behind bars in an effort to ‘safeguard democracy.’
“Biden’s in office, so all of these kingly powers that you’re talking about the president having, Biden has now,” he said on the “Brilliant Idiots” podcast. “And he could use some of those kingly powers to protect democracy, but he won’t.”
Co-host Chris Morrow disagreed with him, saying that it would be an abuse of power for him to do that.
“So democracy is really not at stake then. If democracy is really at stake and Trump is the existential threat that they say he is, you should do everything in your power to protect it,” Charlamagne said.
“While also protecting the Constitution and democracy. You can’t sacrifice democracy to save democracy,” Morrow hit back.
“Listen, if somebody got a bazooka on your block, you don’t show up with a nine, Chris. You got to go get you a bazooka,” Charlamagne said as he claimed Republicans would abuse the Supreme Court decision.
But co-host AlexxMedia took it to an insane place when he said the president could “actually” order the former president to be killed because of the “threat” he poses to “democracy.”
“Or lock him up. We don’t even got to go so far as murder. Just lock him up. Lock him up. Throw away the key,” Charlamagne said in response.
But Morrow said that doing that would backfire on Democrats.
“Chris, they’ve already hit this man with 90 plus charges. He got convicted of 34. You know what? Boy, sometimes I want y’all just to be able to see an alternative universe,” Charlamagne responded. “When Trump gets back in the White House, all the Bidens going to jail. And some Clintons. What are we doing, Chris?”
And Charlamagne was not alone as former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner recently said the president should take advantage of the Supreme Court decision to protect the United States from a “dictatorship.”
“Will we feel secure in the knowledge that he didn’t take advantage of the lawlessness that the Supreme Court said is now ingrained in our Constitution, the lawlessness that a chief executive, a president of the United States, is allowed to exercise given the Supreme Court’s new interpretation of presidential immunity?” he said.
“Will we feel good about the principle that President Biden exhibited by declining to use that power and giving over our American democracy to dictatorship? I don’t know,” he said.
Biden spoke about the Supreme Court’s decision after it was announced.
Speaking from the executive mansion’s red-carpeted Cross Hall, Biden likened the high court’s ruling to giving Trump “the keys to a dictatorship.”
“This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America,” he said. “Each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law – not even the president of the United States. But today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all, for all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”
“This decision today has continued the court’s attack in recent years on a wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights to taking away a woman’s right to choose, to today’s decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation,” he added.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated ruling on former President Donald Trump’s claims of “immunity” from prosecution as the fate of at least two federal cases filed against him hung in the balance.
The justices ruled 6-3 that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers.
The Supreme Court has ruled that Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions he took as president if those actions were part of his official duties. However, he can be prosecuted for things he did that were not part of his job as president. The lower courts must carefully examine each action to determine whether it is official or not.
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