“From 1789 to 2023, no former, or current, President faced criminal charges for his official acts – for good reason. The President cannot function, and the Presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence, if the President faces criminal prosecution for official acts once he leaves office. The President’s ‘personal vulnerability,’ Nixon v. Fitzgerald, to such prosecution would inevitably ‘distort’ the President’s ‘decision making process with respect to official acts,’ Trump v Vance.”

“A denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future President with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of political opponents. The threat of future prosecution and imprisonment would become a political cudgel to influence the most sensitive and controversial Presidential decisions, taking away the strength, authority, and decisiveness of the Presidency. The DC Circuit’s ruling, if allowed to stand, ‘deeply wounds the President, by substantially reducing the President’s ability to protect himself'” write disgraced former President Trump’s asshole lawyers in their brief on US v Trump.

Not like it matters. It could’ve said “If I don’t get immunity it will be a bloodbath of death and destruction the likes of which the crooked socialist RINOs on the Supreme Court have never seen before,” and it would have no bearing on Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch’s ultimate opinions. They’re going to rule in his favor and the outcome depends only on what the “middle” of John Roberts, Beer Me Brett, and Amy Coney Barrett decide to do about fat Donald.