This past Friday, a three judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia ruled that Donald Trump is not in fact immune from lawsuits brought against
him by injured Capitol police officers during the Capitol riot. This is now the third time,
three times in the year 2023, that that court of appeals told Donald Trump,
you are not immune from being sued in civil court for what you did during that Stop the
Steal rally speech. This is big and this goes way beyond just these civil lawsuits. This is going
to have dramatic implications for Donald Trump's criminal lawsuits because let's not forget Donald
Trump has appealed Judge Tanya Chutkan's ruling, saying he doesn't have immunity.
He's appealed that to this exact same court. The court that told him three times last year,
you're not immune now gets to decide if he's immune from criminal prosecution,
a decision they have not yet handed down, but they will begin their hearings on that on January 9th.
Given what they told him three times last year, I don't think they're gonna say, yeah,
you're immune from criminal prosecution and here's why. Look at the words that they used
in their ruling telling him he is not immune from this civil lawsuit. Here's what they said.
This is the chief judge of that appellate court. Whether President Trump's actions involve speech
on matters of public concern bears no inherent connection to the essential distinction between
official and unofficial acts. When a first term president opts to seek a second term,
his campaign to win reelection is not an official presidential act. The office of
the presidency as an institution is agnostic about who will occupy it next, and campaigning to gain
that office is not an official act of the office. Now, that may seem a little bit confusing, but let
me kind of, you know, use normal words to say it. The things you said at that Stop the Steal rally,
you didn't say 'em as president, you said them as candidate Trump. Therefore, you're not immune from
being sued when those words you spoke led people to become violent, which then led to the injuries
of these individuals. You are liable for that. At least, you know, you are allowed to be sued for
it. You can go to court and prove that you're not liable for it. So you don't have immunity because
you were running for office and the office of the presidency doesn't care who sits in it. It has
certain rules, and candidates have certain rules. And that is why I say that this is going to come
back to bite him when this court has to make the exact same decision about whether or not he can be
criminally prosecuted. Donald Trump was not doing these things, you know, sending the fake electors,
coordinating with them, getting their fake certificates to Mike Pence. He wasn't doing
that as President of the United States. Those were the actions of a candidate for President of the
United States, and therefore, he is not immune from criminal prosecution for violating the law
to try to stay in office. Now again, this court has not ruled on immunity in the criminal cases,
but using their exact same logic in the civil case, we should be able to extrapolate what
they will do in the criminal case and it's not going to end well for Donald Trump.