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Wrong. Fitzgerald specifically shields the President from civil suits. The Court will not help you at all.

Your only recourse would be waiting until the President is out of office, then getting DoJ onboard to press criminal charges, with all the due process that entails. Fitzgerald explicitly provides no protection in the case of criminal litigation over and beyond that of an ordinary citizen for a former President.

Until today at least. God save us all.




You can file a civil suit to get an injunction to protect your personal rights. The ACLU does this all the time as do many other orgs




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