Posted on Dec 21, 2023
Trump ramps up plans for new police powers — except the ones investigating him: analyst
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Former President Donald Trump has an "absurd" new plan to expand the rights of American police, even as he rages against those investigating him, legal experts told The New York Times Thursday.
Trump's new proposal would "indemnify" on-duty police officers, essentially shielding them from misconduct lawsuits, despite already high immunity standards that make legal cases against officers hard to win, Michael Gold reported.
Legal experts told Gold the proposal doesn't make much sense.
“The idea that officers need indemnification is frankly absurd, because they already have it,” said Benjamin Cardozo Law School professor Alexander Reinert.
“Officers virtually never pay anything in settlements or judgments entered against them,” said UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz, noting police departments and insurance companies usually make payouts, not the officers.
That didn't stop Trump from saying in a recent speech, “We are going to indemnify them, so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension and their job."
Nor did his professed support of law enforcement stop Trump from "raging" against federal and state law enforcement officials leading the four criminal cases against him, Gold notes.
Trump's new proposal would "indemnify" on-duty police officers, essentially shielding them from misconduct lawsuits, despite already high immunity standards that make legal cases against officers hard to win, Michael Gold reported.
Legal experts told Gold the proposal doesn't make much sense.
“The idea that officers need indemnification is frankly absurd, because they already have it,” said Benjamin Cardozo Law School professor Alexander Reinert.
“Officers virtually never pay anything in settlements or judgments entered against them,” said UCLA Law professor Joanna Schwartz, noting police departments and insurance companies usually make payouts, not the officers.
That didn't stop Trump from saying in a recent speech, “We are going to indemnify them, so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension and their job."
Nor did his professed support of law enforcement stop Trump from "raging" against federal and state law enforcement officials leading the four criminal cases against him, Gold notes.
Trump ramps up plans for new police powers — except the ones investigating him: analyst
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Makes Perfect Sense that a Nazi wants a Police State as Long as He Gets to Decide what the Law is
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Most things Trump says make sense, but he is a very tongue in cheek type of speaker; naturally his political opponents will print his comments out of context of how they are said to sway the low intelligence people/voters.
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Nope. He's a traitor-turd.
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Democrat oligarchs are preventing the electorate from having opponents to the “selected “ Democrat nominee for President.. Hillary Clinton was selected and Bernie Sanders was screwed. Florida and several other states only have one candidate on the Ballot, Joe Biden screwing others seeking the position and their supports seeking a different candidate. Now the Democrats are trying to prevent Republicans from having their candidate of choice. Before Trump was inaugurated Democrats declared war seeking to impeach Trump. The whole Russian collusion BS was a set up, and any one that can’t see that is more Blind than Stevie Wonder because they refuse to see!.
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LTC David Brown
There was a set up of Popadopoulos and Carter Page. Steele pedaled the dossier to Corn and another reporter. Those stories by Corn etc were used to justify FISA warrants. Mueller was in severe cognitive incline and didn’t have a clue.
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LTC David Brown - You are right, Mueller is lucky is he knew his name. Listening to him still in a position of responsibility was embarrassing for our nation.
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Hahahahaha...no, wait...you're serious?
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This is funny!!! I remember the first time President Trump was elected he was going to start WW3! and the world economy was going to collapse!!!
The thing that's not funny is we are dangerously close to those actions happening under President Biden's lack of Leadership.
The thing that's not funny is we are dangerously close to those actions happening under President Biden's lack of Leadership.
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