David Aaronovitch, a BBC presenter and columnist for The Times of London, is calling on Joe Biden to “hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security” following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for “official acts.”
“The President… may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts,” Chief Justice John Roberts explained in the ruling, which has major implications for the Biden regime’s lawfare prosecutions of Trump over January 6.
Aaronovitch, who hosts The Briefing Room news show on BBC Radio 4, is adopting the hysterical interpretation of the ruling by dissenting liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor. She claims it empowers Presidents to “[order] the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival” or “Organize a military coup to hold onto power.”
However, this is clearly inaccurate, as the ruling only immunizes the President against prosecution for “exercising his core constitutional powers.” These do not include powers to assassinate U.S. citizens at will or overthrow other branches of government in a military coup.
Moreover, the ruling clearly states that Congress can still remove the President’s immunity through the constitutional impeachment process. This is standard practice in the European Parliament and many European legislatures, where even low-level lawmakers often enjoy immunity unless there is a vote to remove it.
