Trump threatens to 'blackmail' Biden if he doesn't make charges go away
Trump threatens to 'blackmail' Biden if he doesn't make charges go away
Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump's claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in ...
Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump's claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in ...
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Not a lawyer and not sure if this applies here, but the threat of blackmail itself seems like it should constitute a crime:
18 U.S.C. § 873 (2021) §873. BlackmailWhoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Yeah that was what I was thinking : in America, land of the lawyers, can't you sue someone who make such important threats ?
You would think so, but apparently Trump had it right when he said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not get in trouble. The laws never seem to get applied to him as they would anyone else in the country.
the threat of blackmail itself seems like it should constitute a crime
My guy has been indicted 91 times and counting. What's one more?
Those are rookie numbers. Not even triple digits.