#Trump declared Wednesday evening that his #power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,”brushing aside #InternationalLaw & other checks on his ability to use #military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.
Asked in a wide-ranging interview if there were any limits on his #global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
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David Sanger has become a waste of space. When a siting president - who has no discernible moral compass and is driven only by his need to enrich himself and protect his ego - proclaims that he is restrained only by his own morality, he is not expressing a view about presidential power. He is proclaiming that there is no law and that nothing can restrain him.
@Nonilex lock him up.
#Trump declared Wednesday evening that his #power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,”brushing aside #InternationalLaw & other checks on his ability to use #military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.
Asked in a wide-ranging interview if there were any limits on his #global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
@Nonilex
Sounds like high treason to me.
Killing the constitution must surely rank as high treason?
Understand that we are currently discussing the MORALITY OF A CONVICTED FELON here..........
@Nonilex A wonderfully applicable expression from Latin America:
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@Nonilex Oh, really, dude. Well, I guess we'll see what other countries have to say about that. I mean, it's ok to extract a leader who is "bad" according to your "doctrine"
“I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.” [no one believes that]
When pressed further about whether his admin needed to abide by #InternationalLaw, #Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the only arbiter when such constraints applied to the #UnitedStates.
“It depends what your definition of international law is,” he said. [🤦🏼♀️]
#felon47 #law #indecency #degenerate #rapist #greed #sociopath #racist #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny #amorality
@Nonilex "I'll obey the laws that sound good to me. That seems fair." -D. Trump
… #Trump seemed unconcerned that the last major #NuclearArms control agreement with #Russia was set to expire in 4 weeks, leaving the world’s 2 largest #nuclear powers free to expand their arsenals without limit, for the first time in half a century.
“If it expires, it expires,” he said. “We’ll just do a better agreement,” he added, insisting that #China, which has the fastest-growing #arsenal in the world, should be incorporated in any future agreement.
On the domestic front, #Trump suggested that #judges only have #power to restrict his domestic policy agenda — from the deployment of the #NationalGuard to the imposition of #tariffs — “under certain circumstances.”
But he was already considering workarounds. He raised the possibility that if his tariffs issued under emergency authorities were struck down by #SCOTUS, he could repackage them as licensing fees.
#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #MartialLaw #autocracy
And #Trump, who said he was elected to restore law & order, reiterated that he was willing to invoke the #InsurrectionAct & deploy the #military inside the #UnitedStates & federalize some #NationalGuard units if *he* felt it was important to do so.
#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #MartialLaw #despotism #autocracy