The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002, to ensure Trump and his administration’s top officials are never prosecuted, Reuters reports, citing a Trump administration official.
U.S. officials are also demanding that the ICC drop its investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over charges related to Gaza, as well as a probe into potential war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
These demands have been made known to the court by the U.S. government, Reuters reports.
“There is growing concern … that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump administration official told Reuters. “That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
Or what? The Trump administration has already set the precedent that things signed into law mean nothing. If Trump wants to sanction the ICC then that effectively means the rest of the world is no longer going to treat the US as a friendly, or even neutral, country.
You can certainly tell the ICC you are not war criminals, but if you do that through strong arming instead of through presentation of evidence then you are one step short of straight up admitting you are a war criminal or intend to perform acts that would make you one in the near future.
You are a shit stain, Donald Trump, and no amount of crying like a whiny little bitch is going to clean your sheets. I hope you enjoy the smell in your own bed, which I guarantee you will be stuck in within 365 days.