Donald Trump Is About To Discover That Presidential Immunity Only Applies To Official Acts
Taking classified documents to Mar A Lago is not a power delegated to the president by Congress.
Remember the Trump rallies where The Former Guy would rile up the audience with a story about Hillary Clinton? I remember how they’d chant, “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” I saw the videos. I saw the enthusiasm. I read the articles claiming that Clinton had passed classified information through her personal email server in her house. I read that her server was compromised. Trump’s team campaigned on that issue as if he were so much better than Clinton.
Then Trump became president, and whenever Trump was accused of doing anything wrong, he claimed presidential immunity. In a lawsuit filed against him for his part in the insurrection at the capitol on January 6th of last year, one of Trump’s defenses was immunity while he was president. Urging people to “fight like hell” doesn’t sound like an official act to me.
In the last week, we learned that Trump took White House documents to his Mar A Lago Resort. They weren’t just any documents, they were classified documents. Not an official act. I don’t hear any Democrats chanting “Lock Him!”
