Echoing France’s Napoleon Bonaparte, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday (February 15, 2025) took to social media to sign continued resistance to limits on his govt authority within the face of a number of authorized challenges.
“He who saves his nation doesn’t violate any Legislation,” Mr. Trump, a Republican, proclaimed on his Fact Social community. The White Home didn’t reply to a request for extra particulars.
The phrase, attributed to the French army chief who created the Napoleonic Code of civil regulation in 1804 earlier than declaring himself emperor, drew speedy criticism from Democrats.
“Spoken like a real dictator,” Senator Adam Schiff of California, a longtime adversary of Mr. Trump, wrote on X.
Mr. Trump, who took workplace on January 20, has made broad assertions of govt energy that seem headed towards U.S. Supreme Court docket showdowns. Some lawsuits accuse Mr. Trump of usurping the authority of Congress as set out within the U.S. Structure.
Whereas Mr. Trump stated he abides by courtroom rulings, his advisers have attacked judges on social media and known as for his or her impeachment. Vice President J.D. Vance wrote on X this week that judges “aren’t allowed to regulate the manager’s authentic energy.”
Washington lawyer Norm Eisen, who like Schiff labored on the primary of Mr. Trump’s two impeachment trials, stated Mr. Trump’s attorneys have repeatedly tried to argue that if the president does it, it’s not unlawful.
Napoleon’s saying, he stated, excuses unlawful acts.
“It is a trial balloon and a provocation,” Mr. Eisen stated of Trump’s message.
Mr. Trump, whose longtime slogan is “Make America Nice Once more,” attributed his survival of an assassination try in July to God’s will.
“Many individuals have informed me that God spared my life for a cause, and that cause was to save lots of our nation and to revive America to greatness,” he stated after his election victory.
Revealed – February 16, 2025 09:47 am IST
