Trump gets partial immunity. Biden: "There are no kings"

“There are no kings. No one, no one is above the law, not even the President of the United States.” A Joe Biden this time alert, serious and incisive in front of the teleprompter in the Cross Hall of the White House, but who still preferred not to answer the journalists’ questions, who would surely have returned to his ‘debacle’ in the debate with the challenger Donald Trump last Friday, when the president appeared wavering, weakened, to the point of making even his closest allies think that perhaps the time had come for a change in view of the November elections. But the decision of the Supreme Court, which granted Donald Trump partial immunity for the trial in which he is accused of having tried to subvert the results of the presidential election by provoking the storming of capitol hill on January 6, 2021, could not go unnoticed. Biden attacked the Court, speaking of a “dangerous precedent” because “the power of the president will no longer be limited by the law”. At the same time, he rekindled his electoral campaign by issuing a warning: this is what can be expected from an elected Trump, otherwise instead “I will respect the limits of presidential power as I have done in these three and a half years”.

Words that followed the victorious ones in the afternoon by Donald Trump who, probably, will now be able to avoid appearing before another court before the elections on November 5. According to the New York Times, the former president is already working to overturn the Manhattan court’s ruling on the Stormy Daniels case. Only a few hours after the Supreme Court of the United States granted him partial immunity for official acts committed in office, Trump’s lawyers have already asked for permission to file a motion to overturn the verdict. And in the last few hours another Court, this time a district court, has reportedly delivered a new blow to the president, hitting his ambitious climate agenda and, in particular, rejecting his latest ban on exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), giving victory to the battle led by Louisiana and the Republican lobby.

The polls

Meanwhile, Trump maintains his margin of victory in the polls and last week’s debate between Biden and Trump has not changed the balance at the moment of forces between the two contenders for the American presidency. According to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris survey published by The Hill, the former president’s margin over the current leader remains 6 percentage points, 47% against 41%, while the undecided are 12%. This is the same ‘gap’ as the last poll conducted in May, when Trump was ahead with 49%. However, the number of voters who doubt Biden’s physical and mental abilities has increased, 66% of those interviewed against 54% in May. And only 26% now believe he is capable of serving a second term in the White House.