• Zron@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I fundamentally don’t understand what special “status” Trump has.

    He’s not in office, he no longer has any of the benefits of the office of the president.

    The whole point of a president is that they are a civilian. The office of the president has many powers and high status in the government, but that’s just the office. Anyone who is elected president gets that power and status because they are president for a time. His time as president is over, now he’s a regular civilian again. If he committed a crime, he should be subject to the same process as any other American citizen.

    If the courts don’t do that, they are setting up the president as a monarch that is immune to the law.