The Last Defence Against Trump's Total Immunity
Donald Trump’s recent threat to the International Criminal Court is a sign that he is in far more trouble than he is willing to admit, reports Heidi Siegmund Cuda
Donald Trump’s administration this week threatened new US sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in an attempt to strong-arm it into not investigating him and his top officials. Such a move is an admission of guilt. An innocent man would have no reason to demand that the ICC amend its founding document. Reuters first reported the threat on Thursday.
It’s just the latest in a series of coups in America.The media coup came first. Billionaires aligned with foreign autocrats own almost all our media and have spent the last decade tilting the playing field toward fascism.
Then came the judicial coup. In 2024, a Supreme Court heavy with religious extremists gave 79-year-old felon Donald Trump what he longed for — total immunity.
This parallels one of the first moves by the 73-year-old Russian president, Vladimir Putin, when he came to power. He made it impossible to prosecute a sitting president, and later, expanded the law to give ex-presidents lifetime immunity. Now, 26 years after first coming to power, despite international indictments for war crimes, he’s still running his decrepit empire.
If you view the so-called ‘peace talks’ as a meeting of crime bosses and not acts of diplomacy (why else the son-in-law?), everything comes into sharper focus.
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