'Dishonest fool' Trump makes Supreme Court’s presidential immunity look 'dumber every day'

President Donald Trump greets Supreme Court justices after addressing a joint session of Congress, March 4, 2025. Image via Screengrab / PBS.

Kevin D. Williamson tells the Dispatch that President Donald Trump is increasingly making a fool of the court that granted him widescale immunity.

“More or less open corruption in the White House. Pardons for sale. Wanton murder on the high seas. Using the Justice Department as a political hit squad. Chief Justice John Roberts’ creation, ex nihilo, of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution looks dumber every day,” said Williamson, adding that Trump was the last person who deserved it.

“Donald Trump is by nature a corrupt man, the sitting patriarch of a long line of lowlifes and miscreants, born for petty crime, and the first convicted felon to have been elected to the office he holds,” argued Williamson, a conservative who once suggested “hanging” for abortions. “He did not need to be encouraged by the Supreme Court’s invention of a presidential immunity that, as some of the supposed textualists on the court must have noticed, does not appear in the text of the Constitution, having evidently emanated from some penumbra or another. But the court encouraged him anyway. I very much doubt that Trump could explain the constitutional origin of his supposed immunity, where it applies, or what its limits are, but he knows that he has it — and that is enough.”

But despite the opinions of Trump-appointed judges, the president has no authority to enact tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, “because somebody in Ontario hurt his feelings,” said Williamson. Neither does the president have constitutional power to appropriate funds or to rescind them, “and he surely does not have the power to use such invented powers to try to blackmail the voters of New York City into supporting the Democrat Trump prefers to the Democrat Trump opposes.”

Nor does the president have the power to murder seafaring South Americans on the (so far unproven) theory that they’re smuggling drugs.

“Even if they were obvious drug smugglers — even if they were sailing under a flag emblazoned 'Here Be Fentanyl' — our law does not allow for the summary execution of criminal suspects. It allows for their arrest and trial,” argued Williamson. “… You can call these murders counterterrorism. But they aren’t counterterrorism any more than they are a jelly donut.”

“Trump can call hush-money paid to the low-rent porn actress he was diddling while his third wife was at home with their newborn a campaign expense,” Williamson added. “He can call the attempted extortion of New Yorkers an official action, he can call Stephen Miller a human being, he can pretend that Diet Coke is as good as the real thing — none of that makes it so, and no one is obliged to take his damned dishonest fool talk seriously.”

And Trump, according to Williamson, is precisely the kind of "lowlife" who is “rejoicing” in his invented immunity by “illegally ordering the killing … of people who have not been charged with, much less convicted, of any crime,” and treating the federal apparatus “as the president’s personal household property, whether that is ordering the DOJ to do his political dirty work or simply knocking down, with no authorization, half the White House in order to rebuild it in the image of Caesars Palace.”

Read the Dispatch report at this link.

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