US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/

President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.

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lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Has he ever tried not being a criminal to avoid criminal charges?

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Every single day it gets worse and worse

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- Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Round and round the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel...
  
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hanrahan@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Zeeo chance he can be prosecuted by the ICC. The US literally has laws.preventing it and will semd in the military.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

U.S. President George Bush today signed into law the American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, which is intended to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a U.S.-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague. This provision, dubbed the “Hague invasion clause,” has caused a strong reaction from U.S. allies around the world, particularly in the Netherlands.

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