President Trump Says Obama Has “Immunity” But Those Around Him DON’T

This isn’t the news conservatives wanted to hear.

President Trump, while speaking to the press on Friday afternoon, shared that Obama has immunity for his alleged role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

Trump shared that Obama owes him big because the Supreme Court previously ruled in favor of Trump’s arguments on presidential immunity.

The 47th President did note that officials in the Obama administration did not have immunity.

Fox News broke down Trump’s comments on immunity in-depth:

President Donald Trump said Friday that former President Barack Obama “owes me big” following the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.

Trump on Tuesday claimed that Obama was the “ringleader” of Russiagate, calling for him to be criminally investigated amid new claims that members of his administration allegedly “manufactured” intelligence that prompted the Trump–Russia collusion narrative. Obama has denied the allegations, with a spokesperson for him describing them as “bizarre.”

“It probably helps him a lot. Probably helps a lot. The immunity ruling, but it doesn’t help the people around him at all. But it probably helps him a lot,” Trump said Friday. “He’s done criminal acts, there’s no question about it. But he has immunity, and it probably helps him a lot… he owes me big, Obama owes me big.”

The intelligence community did not have any direct information that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, but, at the “unusual” direction of then-President Barack Obama, published “potentially biased” or “implausible” intelligence suggesting otherwise, the House Intelligence Committee found, according to a Fox News report earlier this week.

Watch the moment he said it here:

President Trump on the treasonous acts of Barack HUSSEIN Obama:

"He has immunity, it probably helps him a lot. He OWES ME BIG. Obama owes me big."

"But it DOESN'T help the people around him AT ALL." pic.twitter.com/Fpy6dP45DC

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NPR provided details on what the precedent is now for the past and current prresidents when it comes to immunity:

In a historic, consequential, and controversial decision on Monday, the Supreme Court granted substantial immunity from prosecution to former president Donald Trump on election subversion charges.

The decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, established a broad new immunity from prosecution, not just for Trump, but for past and future presidents, too. Presidents may not be prosecuted for exercising their “core” constitutional powers, and even in situations where former presidents might be prosecuted after leaving office, they are entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for official actions they took as president.
Such immunity is needed, said the chief justice, in order to protect an “energetic,” and “independent executive,” willing to take “bold” actions and make unpopular decisions when needed.

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And while Roberts said that private actions by a former president are not protected from prosecution, his opinion seemed to inexorably intertwine private and public actions.

Why should Obama be granted Presidential Immunity, when he said, No one is above the law, especially Presidents

Presidential immunity is to protect former Presidents from witch hunts, not those who break the law

I say, Arrest Obama, who's with me 👍

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