Harvard Law Professor Delivers Chilling Prediction After Trump Immunity Ruling

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe on Monday shredded the Supreme Court’s granting of total immunity to Donald Trump for “official acts” he took as president as “a devastating blow to our system of government.”

“For all practical purposes, this is absolute immunity,” Tribe explained to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

“It’s dangerous and it means we have to be even more careful never to elect a president who would think, let alone say, he wants to be a dictator on day one,” he added. Trump has vowed to be a dictator on the first day of a potential second term. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has also promised to seek revenge on his enemies.

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To MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Tribe said America “had a revolution so we wouldn’t have a King and now the Supreme Court says that is what we’re giving you.”

The ruling sets a dangerous precedent, he warned, calling it “a prescription for autocracy and eventually for authoritarianism and dictatorship.”