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you really really haven't been paying attention to the head of the judicial branch of us government, namely the supreme court, and their recent determination that presidents cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions while in office, the department of justice from where all federal prosecutions and investigations come, reports directly to donald trump, the supreme court's republican majority was installed by donald trump personally. there's nobody that will arrest musk or trump. so, again, i ask, now what?
Technically that ruling stated the President was above all laws.
Musk and his child goons aren't.
But, also, yes, if the FBI was going to do its fucking job it would have by now.
Trump can pardon them for anything and everything at a federal level, and the current Supreme Court says you can do nothing about it. That makes whoever the president favors above the law.
He can. So. Lets make him