Former CIA director John Brennan on Thursday, the Fourth of July, slammed the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s granting of complete immunity to Donald Trump for “official” acts carried out when president.
“That is definitely not the America I believed we might stay in as we have a good time the 248th anniversary of our nation’s independence,” Brennan, who led the CIA from 2013 to 2017 and served six presidents, wrote in a stinging opinion piece for MSNBC.
What “appalls and worries me most are the abject ignorance and obvious indifference of the six” conservative justices who made the ruling, stated Brennan.
It’ll have “deeply disturbing sensible penalties if an unprincipled and politically corrupt particular person is ever elected president of america sooner or later,” he warned. Read Brennan’s essay here.
Brennan expanded on the subject in an interview later Thursday on MSNBC, throughout which he warned that the choice would permit future presidents — akin to former president and present presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump — to do just about no matter they needed with out authorized consequence.
Brennan added, “It’s devastating.”
Watch the interview right here:
