Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is in effect an admission of guilt. trump knows that he has violated international law and is very worried. This is the behavior of a man who can hear the footsteps of the defense catching up to him. He's panicking.

Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump reut.rs/4q6cHsK

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-12-10T16:35:17Z

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.

If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of Israeli leaders over the Gaza war and formally ending an earlier probe of U.S. troops over their actions in Afghanistan - Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself, the official said.

Sanctioning the court would significantly escalate the U.S. campaign against the ICC, which has long been criticized by U.S. officials including both Republicans and Democrats, who say the court infringes on U.S. sovereignty.

The Trump administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Washington has communicated its demands to ICC members, some of whom are U.S. allies, and has also made them known to the court. The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC in 2002 as a court of last resort, with the power to prosecute heads of state.

The demand and the threat to resume the U.S. sanctions campaign towards the court have not been previously reported.
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[johnnyfins]

1. They should investigate and then charge him

and charge him again for making this threat. Charge him everytime he opens his rotten anus of a mouth.

[kimbutgar]

2. I hope the ICC gives him a big middle finger and prosecutes him

What is he going to do ? Drop an atom bomb on the ICC?

[BSDemon]

3. Tell me that you're guilty without telling me that you're guilty

goodness me, this is outrageous

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. White House demands International Criminal Court pledge not to prosecute Trump

trump is scared of being prosecuted. If trump survives long enough to leave office, trump may face arrest if he leaves the US

The U.S. government threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court unless the body vowed not to prosecute President Donald Trump.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-12-10T23:40:08Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-international-criminal-court-sanctions/

The U.S. government threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court unless the body vowed not to prosecute President Donald Trump.

Officials in the Trump administration confirmed to Reuters that the International Criminal Court had been told not to investigate the U.S. president.

"Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself," Reuters reported, noting that the Trump administration was also demanding investigations into U.S. troops' actions in Afghanistan and into Israeli leaders over the war in Gaza be dropped.

The U.S. did not participate in the 2002 Rome Statute establishing the ICC as a court of last resort capable of prosecuting heads of state.

"There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them," a Trump official told Reuters.