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Originally Posted by
Tgo01
Just going to throw this out there before Seran spews his verbal diarrhea.
The reason for presidential immunity for OFFICIAL acts as president (because I know Seran is going to ignore that 'official' part): remember when Obama bombed a civilian hospital in Afghanistan?
Sure, Obama and everyone in his administration claimed it was an accident (and to be fair it probably was), should Obama be charged with murder for this? Or at the very least manslaughter since he admitted he did it on accident? Of course not, that would be absolutely absurd.
Imagine if we lived in a world where the president could be charged with a crime for such an act? No president would lead us into war, even a serious and necessary war, because they would be afraid they would be charged with all sorts of crimes relating to what happened in said war.
Apply this to just about everything else a president does in their official capacity.