Rolling Stone reports on Trump’s plans for those state charges should he become president:
Donald Trump likes to tell anyone who will listen that he’s absolutely convinced he will win his 2024 rematch against President Joe Biden. And, according to people who’ve spoken to the ex-president about this, Trump also seems convinced that if he wins another four years in the White House, state prosecutors will still be waiting for him on the other side of his term — ready to put him on trial, or even in prison, just as they are now.
To avoid such risks, the former and perhaps future president of the United States wants Congress to create a very specific insurance policy that would help keep him out of prison forever, two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Trump vaguely alluded to this idea last week outside his New York criminal hush money trial, when he said he has urged Republican lawmakers to pass “laws to stop things like this.”
In recent months, the sources say, Trump has spoken to several GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, attorneys, and other associates about the possibility of Republicans passing legislation in a second Trump term that would shield former presidents (i.e. Trump) from non-federal prosecutions. In recent conversations with closely-aligned lawmakers, Trump has pressured them to do so, describing it as imperative that he signs such a bill into law, if he again ascends to the Oval Office.
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The former president himself has hinted at a legislative push to limit his exposure to such criminal charges. In an improvised press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, Trump said he’s been telling the Republican lawmakers who want to attend his trial and show solidarity to focus on legislation instead.
“We have a lot of ’em. They want to come. I say, ‘Just stay back and pass lots of laws to stop things like this,’” Trump told reporters.
Right. He also seems to think that a law to allow former presidents to remove any state trials to federal court. I guess he thinks his Supreme Court majority will always save him. (He may be right about that.)
I assume if he wins and has a congressional majority that he will have no problems getting this through almost immediately. It will be at the very top of his list. The Senate will end the filibuster for this. Whatever it takes.
He is terrified of going to jail and that is now the top motivation for his candidacy. Sure, he wants revenge and needs to prove that he’s not the loser he so obviously is. But staying out of jails is job one and he will do anything to avoid accountability for his crimes wherever they are.