“He who saves his country does not violate any law,” the president wrote in Truth Social and X. The official White House account in X also shared the message.
The president, whose efforts to cut federal financing, fire thousands of government workers and unilaterally redefine the 14th amendment were blocked in federal courts, invoked a quote often attributed to Napoleon, who justified his despotic regime as the will of the people of France.
The appointment of a president with his own imperialist ambitions seems to come from the film Waterlooof 1970, in which Steiger’s Napoleon affirms that “no ‘usurpó’ the crown.” “I found her in the gutter and picked it up with my sword, and it was the town … who put it on my head. Who saves a nation does not violate any law. ”
In their first month in office, Trump’s allies have argued without foundation the Trump Supreme Authority as president, immune to controls and counterweights, while their executive orders and Musk’s access to the government’s levers face an avalanche of demands and restriction orders.
Musk and other members of the Trump administration have defamed the judges who have failed against them qualifying them as “corrupt” and “evil”, and have threatened to dismiss and accuse them.
The richest man in the world and his allies have repeated false and inflated statements about how the three powers of the government work and how a system of weights and counterweights is designed to prevent the presidency from accumulating supreme authority.
Their comments are making the alarms between constitutional academics and legal analysts on an imminent constitutional crisis, of which the White House blames the judges, not to the spurious legal actions of the president already the unfounded insistence of the government in which he should not Be subject to pesos and counterweights in court.
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The 2024 ruling of the Supreme Court that affirms the “immunity” of a president against criminal processing for actions related to official duties while in office has only fed what Trump perceives as a permanent shield against supervision.
Jamelle Bouie, Del New York Timeshe described Trump’s last statement as “the most anti -state and unconstitutional statement ever pronounced by an American president.”
“We are entering the territory of the true Führerprinzip”, Added the conservative critic of Trump Bill Kristol, referring to the executive authority under Nazi Germany, and recognizing the word of the Führer above all.
Musk’s current campaign to delegitimize the courts followed the statement of vice president JD Vance that “judges cannot control the legitimate power of the Executive.”
This week, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused the “means” of “instilling fear” about an imminent constitutional crisis.
“The true constitutional crisis is taking place within our Judiciary, where the judges of the District Courts in Liberal Districts are abusing their power,” journalists told Wednesday.
He falsely said that judicial orders against the administration “have no legal basis.” “We will comply with these orders, but it is also the position of the administration that, ultimately, we will be claimed,” he said.
