Trump Says He Had 'Every Right' to Interfere With Presidential Election
Source: Newsweek
Published Sep 01, 2024 at 10:20 PM EDT | Updated Sep 01, 2024 at 11:25 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Mark Levin that he had "every right" to interfere with a presidential election.
The host of the Life, Liberty and Levin program talked about the Republican nominee's ongoing legal concerns amid the 2024 campaign, including Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's federal election subversion case.
Levin, a lawyer and longtime conservative commentator, said that President Joe Biden or Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could tell the Attorney General to "knock it off" regarding the federal cases against Trump. He went on to ask, "this election interference never ends, does it?"
"Actually, but you know the good news it's so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your pull numbers go down," Trump said during the second part of a recorded interview that aired Sunday night.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-every-right-interfere-presidential-election-1947342
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marble falls
(71,929 posts)
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)marble falls
(71,929 posts)
niyad
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Attilatheblond
(8,878 posts)His spoiled rich brat morality of 'it's OK to break laws because I have the right to break laws' is showing more an more. Mental facilities failing to the point that he doesn't see the problem with that precept, or has he accepted that he is guilty and gonna be found guilty in more courts?
BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)and you saw what you saw and it is what it is. 
panfluteman
(2,193 posts)BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts) NonPC
(405 posts)I still think that Trump will show NO remorse over his actions that caused 34 convictions, and respond with absolute nonsense when asked questions by the judge. This will allow the judge to order a psychiatric evaluation of Trump before final sentencing. Then they'll take him in to the big white building with padded walls, where everyone will be happy once again. Also no issues with how the Secret Service will provide protection.
Seinan Sensei
(1,546 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,785 posts)A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. The person is also highly dogmatic in their views, meaning the person speaks of their personal opinions as though they were unquestionably correct.
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)He commits whatever crimes he wants, and is so adored he was elected to high office once
and it could happen again.
ananda
(35,145 posts)tied to the top of RFK's car heading to Venezuela.
Yup
generalbetrayus
(1,860 posts)ananda
(35,145 posts)
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Narcissism, sociopathy, and raging stupidity are a terrible recipe for a person.
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)He commits crimes with impunity, and legal action against him appears to be just for show.
And he has a good chance of become the leader of the free world.
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,213 posts)It won’t be a free world.
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)
musclecar6
(1,884 posts)He’s way out there. He obviously wants to be a modern day tyrant in the worst way. If enough of the voters are insane enough to reelect this clown, the good news is they’re going down when he wreaks havoc on our country. The bad news is, we’re all gonna go down too.
Let’s hope enough of the voters wake up this time around and vote him out with a huge blue wave landslide along with every other Republican they can vote out, that are enabling this lunatic.
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)Every time you open your mouth, your humiliating defeat is assured a tad more.
underpants
(196,495 posts)SIR! Would you like more rope or a bigger shovel??
Exactly. Keep running your mouth DonOld.
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)
PortTack
(35,820 posts)
Bengus81
(10,165 posts)or keel over dead from a heart attack. I want that POS alive and well all the way to the election.
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)I want him fully conscious as he experiences the humiliation and disgrace that he has earned for many years and may he live for a very long, miserable time. No easy outs for this guy.
I don't wish anything for him that he doesn't deserve. Let his mindless followers see who he really is.
kacekwl
(9,147 posts)"knock it off" when the president tells them to. See Bill Barr.
Martin Eden
(15,629 posts)... he so was overly concerned about any perception of partisanship, that justice has been delayed to the possibility of being denied entirely.
On the other hand, Trump has every intent to use the Justice Dept as a tool for his own personal retribution.
GreenWave
(12,641 posts)Martin Eden
(15,629 posts)But by major media and voters as well.
everyonematters
(4,158 posts)Levin doesn't care what the ramifications of his actions are on our society.
underpants
(196,495 posts)smashing fistfuls of mashed potatoes together
bucolic_frolic
(55,141 posts)The Job Creators have become The Eyeshadow Guys
bdamomma
(69,532 posts)this What a sick fuck he is. He's mentally not well.
C_U_L8R
(49,384 posts)Apparently, Trump forgot his upcoming trials and right to remain silent. He has a knack for putting his own head in the guillotine.
Lonestarblue
(13,480 posts)And the Supreme Court just handed down the same viewpoint with their immunity ruling created out of thin air.
TommieMommy
(2,902 posts)
Farmer-Rick
(12,667 posts)And we are supposed to understand what the f*ck he's saying? It makes no sense.
That article is being very generous with interpreting what Pedo Trump said. It made no sense to me. I didn't get that meaning from the jumble of nonsense out of his mouth.
Soon the corporate media will have a permanent job for pedo Trump translators. Because the man is speaking a language all to himself. It's not proper English. It's not normal communicating. It's pedo Trump speak.
What he said in that interview(?) is gobbledygook. It has no real meaning. Pedo Trump has lost his ability to talk in sentences.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)Thanks, DOJ for the timely delay. You'll go down in history.........where you belong.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)Botany
(77,324 posts)Courts and or juries will love his, “I had the right to break the law,” defense.
He is cooking his own 🦃.
twodogsbarking
(18,785 posts)tonekat
(2,529 posts)OK, he confessed, Jack Smith, do your duty. Someone wake up Merrick Garland.
onetexan
(13,913 posts)as the new AG. Hopefully someone whose a bulldog like Preet Bharara.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)
crud
(1,257 posts)Well, no. They scream election interference when the Biden admin makes non-partisan ads to promote voting.
myohmy2
(3,721 posts)...kind of democracy do we have when someone who clearly doesn't believe in democracy and is willing to subvert it can have the highest office in the land...?
...this is reflecting rather poorly on us and our system...
...
dslyahoo
(179 posts)actions. Pundits and media seem to translate whatever he spews into something that seems comprehensible. On social media and in interviews, his cult members try to bash the left by saying “Liberals do (or say)…” then follow that phrase with a description of DonOLD’s recent actions or words. MAGA politicians simply make things up all the time. There is no connection to reality. Republican positions and their worldview are just vaporware. They do seem to have a hypnotic effect on many, but there is no there there. Republican extremists (actual people), on the other hand, use that hypnotic effect for real world grifting, bullying, control, criminalization, and abuse. Therein lies the reason they ALL need to be voted out of office, discredited, convicted (if appropriate), and driven back to the dark edges of society.
Vinca
(53,994 posts)
sarchasm
(1,309 posts)because his behavior never changes after the election regardless of the outcome. To him campaign interference IS campaigning.
Clouds Passing
(7,934 posts)A very common problem with the 1%
Clouds Passing
(7,934 posts)33taw
(3,343 posts)panfluteman
(2,193 posts)Are the cardinal signs that Trump's Malignant Narcissism is in its terminal or end stage. After all, at a rally after the classified documents case broke, he told his audience, "Those documents are MINE!"
republianmushroom
(22,326 posts)I wouldn't bet the farm on it happening thou.
43 months and counting (includes foot dragging)
NotHardly
(2,705 posts)BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)It's not the DOJ "letting it slide".
This "admission" has become a pundit goldmine (including MSNBC's Katie Phang, who is one of their cast of attorneys) and I am sure it is being noted by Smith, like stuff like this in the past, and may make it into a future filing -
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Criming and then confessing to the criming.
That’s a Trump specialty.
Acyn
@Acyn
Trump: Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it.
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ificandream
(11,837 posts)Levin is a nutcase and he only gave Trump an excuse for spewing his bullshit.
BumRushDaShow
(169,761 posts)CNN - Trump claims he had 'every right' to interfere with election
NBC NEWS - Trump says he had 'every right' to interfere in the 2020 election
THE HILL - Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in election
THE INDEPENDENT - Trump tells Fox News he had ‘every right’ to interfere in presidential election
Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)If Trump, before the SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling thinks he had that much power, you can't even imagine what he'd do as president again.
And for those people who argue that that SCOTUS ruling doesn't give presidents more power, technically you're right. But from a practical standpoint, you're dead wrong, especially when we'd be facing Trump with SCOTUS in his back pocket.
But fear not, we will defeat Trump at the box office in November and by a wider margin than we did in 2020.
When we fight, we win!
generalbetrayus
(1,860 posts)"Actually, but you know the good news it's so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up. When people get indicted your pull numbers go down."
yourout
(8,821 posts)
BlueKota
(5,346 posts)why should it upset him, if President Biden "interferes." By Trump's own logic it's the President's right.
Evolve Dammit
(21,777 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,996 posts)He says Biden has done all of these horrible things to him (like the indictments) and it is election interference. But by his own logic, if a president has every right to interfere in an election, then he's admitting Biden has done nothing wrong. "He has every right to do it"
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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sakabatou
(46,148 posts)DallasNE
(8,008 posts)Bizarrely, we don't know the answer to that question because the Supreme Court has not ruled on whether election interference is an official act since Jack Smith just refiled the case. SCOTUS also failed to address the obvious conflict of interest in this matter. His subordinates that assist him would, however, be subject to prosecution. They just couldn't use any conversations with the President as evidence. That is how convoluted the recent Supreme Court decision on immunity is. With this Supreme Court you can assume nothing.
liberal N proud
(61,194 posts)