Former CIA director John Brennan on Thursday ― the Fourth of July ― slammed the U.S. Supreme Court’s granting of total immunity to Donald Trump for “official” acts conducted when president.
“This is certainly not the America I thought we would live in as we celebrate the 248th anniversary of our country’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 apparent indifference of the six” conservative justices who made the ruling, said Brennan.
It will have “deeply disturbing practical consequences if an unprincipled and politically corrupt individual is ever elected president of the United States in the future,” he warned. Read Brennan’s essay here.
Brennan expanded on the topic in an interview later Thursday on MSNBC, during which he warned how the decision would allow a future president — such as former president and current presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump — to do pretty much whatever they wanted without legal consequence.
“It’s devastating,” said Brennan.
Watch the interview here: