Well the Supreme Court has ruled. The President is immune from prosecution for any acts done in his official capacity. This makes sense. If he ordered a plane shot down because a terrorist had a bomb on board and was going to blow up the Super Bowl, the families of the passengers on the plane could not sue the President. Or if he ordered a financial plan to save the dollar or punish a rouge nation and some people lost money, they would not be able to sue for incidental damages.
But when the President says "You know, I mean, I’m notifying you that you’re letting it happen. So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state." This was a direct appeal to benefit him, not the American people. This was done as candidate Trump, not President Trump. It was not to root out corruption (that was not found) but rather a specific number personally requested.
Or when he said "Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. (1) He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me. [Italics mine] For this he was impeached.
When the President asks for or requests something that will benefit him personally, he is not acting in the interest of the country and should be subject to prosecution. Now the Supreme Court could have defined the line, instead kicked the can down the road.......
(1) who has just been disbarred - Rudy Giuliani disbarred over false 2020 election claims
