Letter to the Editor: Presidential immunity must be preserved
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In an earlier letter, in the Sunday, April 28 newspaper, titled "Election Security Still a Big Lie," due to space limitations I omitted mentioning:
In Arizona, when election officials attempted an audit of the voting machines for tampering, they found the voting machines had been mysteriously erased and therefore unable to be audited. How much election fraud actually occurred?
In Atlanta, after the partisan poll watchers were sent home and the election officials continued tallying ballots, they also pulled out boxes of ballots hidden under the tables and tallied them. This act was caught on security cameras. Again, how much election fraud occurred?
In Nevada, ballots were illegally received and tallied after the deadline.
Was there enough fraud in the 2020 election to reverse the outcome? The election was never thoroughly investigated. Thus we will probably never know.
I would also like to bring attention to the Biden administration's special counsel, Jack Smith's insane lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, alleging Trump has no immunity from prosecution for duties he carried out while president.
Do Biden and his handlers realize the precedents they are setting? If former presidents have no said immunity after they leave office, Joe Biden is opening himself to numerous lawsuits after his leaves office. Maybe over the American lives lost during Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, or maybe due to Biden's refusal to secure the southern border, allowing drugs to come in killing Americans or allowing illegal immigrants in to murder innocent Americans.
Biden is also setting former president Obama up for his botched "Fast and Furious" operation putting firearms in the hands of Mexican drug cartels or for Obama's or for Obama's drone attack, which resulted in the death of American citizens.
Ex-President George W. Bush could be sued for allegedly lying to Americans over Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction or ex-President Jimmy Carter could be sued for his mishandling of the Iran hostage crisis. The list could go on and on.
Should the Supreme Court uphold the contention presidents lose their immunity from prosecution upon leaving office, future presidents will fear showing leadership while in office, due to the possibility of later lawsuits, rendering the executive branch powerless. Presidents must retain at least some degree of immunity after leaving office.
Steve Wolverton
Parkersburg