Laurence Tribe: Trump Acting Like A Dictator With 'Absolute Immunity' Defense - The Last Word MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Donald Trump’s lawyers argue the former president has “absolute immunity” from legal charges related to the Capitol invasion, a defense Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe calls “a remarkable claim.” Prof. Tribe says Donald Trump answers to the American public, and that “one of the ways you answer to the people is by being held accountable for the damages that you do when you aim an angry mob at members of Congress.” Aired on 05/26/2021.

[YoshidaYui]

1. Acting like?

If Biden didn't win, Trump would be one.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. He's believed he was and behaved like one since day one...

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's not a good sign that the patently obvious must be explained on TV to the country

You wouldn't be having this conversation 25 years ago.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. It's like a dementia that arrived and has spread with the former guy

Previously we observed laws and norms - and we could have used a recount 20 years ago, not now.

[Aussie105]

5. Trump is a classic case of a Dictator.

No insight into the morality, or lack thereof, of his own behavior.

Power and the acquisition of power surpasses and justifies everything.

An unshakable faith in the value and success of their approach, despite evidence to the contrary.

No insight into the future, if things go wrong . . .

. . . which they do, eventually. So no backup plan, no escape hatch, no flexibility in approach, just pure disaster for #45dictator and his ilk.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. An absolutely PERFECT

description of the mind of Donald J. Trump.

[gab13by13]

6. I predict this,

If Alan Weiselberg doesn't flip, MF45 is going to skate.