'A Sweeping And Devastating Opinion': Dem Lawmaker Decries SCOTUS' Presidential Immunity Ruling

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During a call led by the Biden-Harris campaign on Monday, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) tore into the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's presidential immunity case.

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00:00Thanks very much, Officer Dunn.

00:04You put it so well and in such stark terms.

00:08And today's decision by the conflicted and compromised Supreme Court has set back our

00:15democracy dramatically.

00:18And it allows for someone like Donald Trump to conspire with others while utilizing ostensibly

00:28official acts as a president to conspire to overturn an election.

00:36And the breadth of this opinion I think we're just starting to get a handle on.

00:43But it essentially says that if there's any plausible official explanation for anything

00:51that a president does, that it effectively is not only immune from being used as an act

01:00in furtherance of a crime, but it's prevented from being used as evidence of a crime.

01:08It is a sweeping and devastating opinion for our separation of powers and for our fundamental

01:18belief and notion that no one is above the law.

01:23The implication of it is significant.

01:28There will certainly not be a trial in that case before the election.

01:37And Donald Trump is given license to do the same thing that he did before.

01:46And that he will view this as his continuing quest for the presidency as a personal get

01:55out of jail free card.

01:57Officer Dunn put it very well, which is something I found when I led the first impeachment investigation

02:05into Donald Trump way back in 2019.

02:08Donald Trump is out for Donald Trump and Donald Trump alone.

02:11He does not care about this country.

02:14He does not care about the American people.

02:17He cares solely about himself.

02:21And I think his attorneys put it exactly as it remains today in the Senate trial in January

02:31of 2020, which is that what Donald Trump believes is in his personal interest is in the country's

02:39interest.

02:41And that is an incredibly dangerous approach.

02:44And we saw that he has just become more and more unhinged, vengeful, retributive and self-centered

02:57as the years have passed, most recently in the debate.

03:04When he blatantly lied about what happened on January 6th, he denied he had any role

03:09in fomenting and inciting a mob that invaded the Capitol.

03:14He refused to say that he would accept the results of the next election.

03:20And he demonstrated that and he admitted that he will be on a retribution tour and would

03:28potentially would be very willing to criminally charge his political enemies.

03:37The danger of a Trump presidency, a second Trump presidency, cannot be underscored.

03:42And I would take it a step further than Officer Dunn.

03:44It's not just the biggest threat in a generation, it is far and away the biggest threat since

03:49the Civil War.

03:51If Joe Biden is not elected in November, we will not have a democracy that we have known

04:00for 250 years.

04:03And with that, let me turn it over to my friend and colleague, Representative Jasmine Crockett.

'A Sweeping And Devastating Opinion': Dem Lawmaker Decries SCOTUS' Presidential Immunity Ruling

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