cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54713532
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.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251210120244/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-threatens-new-icc-sanctions-unless-court-pledges-not-prosecute-trump-2025-12-10/
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Threatening sanctions against the ICC if they investigate you. How to know you are the wrong side of history 101.
I feel like we need to add a rule to the Evil Overlord Handbook over this one.
"I will not threaten international governing bodies for prosecuting me for my crimes.
I will not do anything that is a clear admission of my crimes to the public."