Former President Donald Trump said the question of presidential immunity going before the Supreme Court is important not just for him but also for other presidents, including Joe Biden.
Trump said in a Thursday interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that if the court rescinds immunity for presidents, “you will have a president that’s not going to be able to do anything.”
“Because, once he leaves office, the opposing party president, if it’s the opposing party, will indict the president for doing something that should have been good,” Trump said.
The Supreme Court declined to hear special counsel Jack Smith’s request asking the justices to circumvent the appeals process and rule on whether Trump has broad immunity over actions he took as president to prevent his 2020 election loss. The appeals court began hearing oral arguments on the topic earlier this month, and the three-judge panel is expected to soon issue a ruling on the case.
“If they don’t have immunity, no president is going to act. You’re gonna have guys that just sit in office and are afraid to do anything,” Trump said.
Trump said the ruling could affect Biden, who the former president said has “killed our country with his policies” but “probably meant well.”
“Well, when he leaves office, if he doesn’t have immunity — now, I think it’s horrible what he did, but he probably, I don’t know; it’s hard to believe, but he probably meant well,” Trump said. “It’s hard to believe that he meant well, but the man is incompetent. But you have to leave immunity with the president.”
The former president also knocked Democrats for running a campaign that attacks him and paints the current situation as “democracy in peril.”
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“That’s all they have,” Trump said, adding that Democrats’ handling of the economy and the border, as well as conflicts abroad, makes it difficult to give Biden a policy platform to run on.
“He can’t put two sentences together. He can’t find the stairs off a stage, which there are a lot of them up there. Believe me, they’re all over the place. He can’t find his way off,” Trump continued. “He can’t find his way off the stage when he makes a very short speech. It has to be short because it can’t be long. He can’t negotiate — look at what’s happening: The whole world is blowing up.”
