The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002, to ensure Trump and his administration’s top officials are never prosecuted, Reuters reports, citing a Trump administration official.
U.S. officials are also demanding that the ICC drop its investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over charges related to Gaza, as well as a probe into potential war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
These demands have been made known to the court by the U.S. government, Reuters reports.
“There is growing concern … that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump administration official told Reuters. “That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
As they conduct more terrorist actions on fishing boats, no less.
Also…2029? I’m not 100% sure cheeto mcpedo is going to make it to 2026. He doesn’t look that hot…
Hegseth probably will.
Can the rest of us push the ICC to prosecute him extra? … not that it’ll matter much but anything that pisses him off more I’m totally for.
Now why do you think that would that be a thing that he’s worried about?
I, in an innocent fashion, do this type of thing with all the police, politicians, and judges in my area. Obviously, I never do anything illegal. I’m the picture of law abiding integrity and blamelessness, obviously.
I just want to make sure I’m protected from…idk, stuff? Or aliens?
Anyways, it’s definitely totally an innocent thing to strongarm, bribe, and blackmail all these powerful people, police and judges…Right, I’m off to do some…things. All of which will be legal and I will definitely not be murdering or raping. Oh no, nope. No way.
Where’s my balaclava??
Where’s my balaclava??
You’re eating dessert? At a time like this?
No one demands to be exempt from prosecution for war crimes unless they intend to commit or have already committed war crimes.
The US is exempt from prosecution under the ICC. This has been the case from the start.
Of course he did. If he ordered the attacks on those boats as an act of war, it was a war crime. If he didn’t do it as an act of war, it was an act of terrorism, which means either way… Everyone who followed the orders all the way down the chain, including him, should see life in prison if the world was just.
The first attack on those boats was criminal.
Those last 5 words are the real catch though, aren’t they?
100% the reason why a strong and independent ICC is needed.
And also 100% why we won’t ever have that
And extradition powers.
"That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
Fuck you ❄️
I demand we make it happen
“Lawmakers should undo them legislatively and repeal the ‘Hague Invasion Act’ — or at least amend it to no longer shield the President and Defense Secretary,” Williams went on, referring to a 2003 law permitting the U.S. to use military force to extract any official from the U.S. or an allied country who is detained by the ICC in the Hague.
… Even in 2003, who the fuck thought yeah this is probably fine and nothing weird or evil.
Post 9/11 knee jerk responses that began to erode and destroy a lot of what made the US. The Taliban already won then and there.
The US always has done heinous shit but it was always under the covers. Not blatantly out in the open.
Their goal was not to destroy the US per se, it was to just get them out of the region. Destroying might have been nice, but only in a way that destroyed their power.
So an unleashed unhinged US was not something they wanted. Sure we might not have the freedom, but they never cared one way or another about that.
Trump wants to be responsible for running the USA and at the same time Trump does NOT want to be responsible for running the USA.
The Trumpian paradox.
By contradicting his own statements he can take credit for either statement and be responsible for neither.
“I’ll be honest, David. I want all of the credit and none of the blame.” —Michael Scott
He wants to be in charge, and not held responsible.
There we go!
Good old fashion double standards. I get in trouble when I put the eggs on the bottom of your grocery bag.
Unless they are individual eggs and not in a paper/carton/wellpapp enclosure, they should be just fine. Eggs are sturdy as hell and with some load balancing, they can take most things placed in a bag.
And why, pray tell, will he be needing immunity if he won’t be doing anything wrong?
Why is this fake Peace prize winner talkin bout war crimey stuff?
Trump is the corruption in the flesh
Oh so now the ICC is on the table, and a legitimate enough threat to be considered worthy of notice.
If I recall we have legislation that was designed around preventing any American soldier from being prosecuted by something like the ICC, I don’t know how far up the chain that could be applied however.
Rather interesting given that I’m not familiar with any ongoing effort to even look into charges, at the least it does demonstrate a certain understanding of the weight of orders given. At the very least, it gives more strength to domestic opposition in whatever discovery is done by the Senate or House in the future.
