Wednesday, December 10, 2025

US Threatens New ICC Sanctions Unless Court Pledges Not to Prosecute Trump

Reuters is reporting that the Trump Administration is trying to force a pledge from the International Criminal Court that it will not prosecute Trump or his officials.

Posted by lamplighter at 07:31 PM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

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Reuters: Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate Trump and his top officials, administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.

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... If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of Israeli leaders over the Gaza war and formally ending an earlier probe of U.S. troops over their actions in Afghanistan - Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself, the official said.

Sanctioning the court would significantly escalate the U.S. campaign against the ICC, which has long been criticized by U.S. officials including both Republicans and Democrats, who say the court infringes on U.S. sovereignty. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 12:35 PM

... 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 tacit admission of possible wrongdoings off the coast of Venezuela?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 12:38 PM

Complicity in Genocide too.

Biden might be on the hook as well.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-10 01:31 PM

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... ICC judges issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli defense chief Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Ibrahim al-Masri last November for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict.

In March 2020, prosecutors opened an investigation in Afghanistan that included possible crimes by U.S. troops. Since 2021, the court has deprioritized looking into the role of the U.S. but it has not formally ended its probe.

To force the war tribunal to drop these charges, the U.S. earlier this year slapped sanctions on nine ICC officials, including judges and prosecutors. But it has stopped short of imposing sanctions on the court as an entity, which would severely disrupt the tribunal's work.

"There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them," the Trump administration official said. ...

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#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 01:58 PM

Complicity in Genocide too.
Biden might be on the hook as well.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-10 01:31 PM

This would be unlikely as other national leaders continued funding the Gaza genocide or sending Israel armaments (e.g. the UK, France, and Germany). Italian and Greek labor went on a massive strike in support of the poor Palestinians in Gaza. Only when the numbers of Muslim victims in Gaza was too much to bear did these national leaders slow down their support for Benjamin Netanyahu's pogrom against them.

So, going after "Genocide Joe" (as Dummkopf Trumpf called him) would entail going after EU leaders as well. And the EU is major funder of the ICC.

Nevertheless, regardless of Dummkopf Trumpf's blustering, sanctions, and threats, the ICC is proceeding apace convicting PIFWCs: www.icc-cpi.int

Nota Bene: Jack Smith was concluding his tour at the ICC when USAG Merrick Garland summoned him to investigate the Dotard-in-Chief as a "Special Counsel," not a "Special Prosecutor" like Archibald Cox who drove Richard Nixon out of the White House in 1974.

If the US is not a state party to the Rome Statute which established the ICC in 2002, why would Washington DC have sent (or allowed) AUSAs to prosecute PIFWCs at the ICC? Jack Smith may have worked at the ICC as a private citizen is what I come up with or another glaring hypocrisy has been exposed.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-10 02:03 PM

The ICC should simply lie, like Trump does.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-10 05:28 PM

Let's Active - Every Dog Has His Day (1988)
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#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 07:50 PM

PROSECUTE HIM!!!!!!

#8 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-12-10 08:18 PM

Prosecute both Trump and Putin in absentia and prove top the world the ICC is somewhat relevant, or else they should STFU.

#9 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-12-10 09:47 PM

@#9 ... Prosecute both Trump and Putin in absentia and prove top the world the ICC is somewhat relevant, or else they should STFU. ...

I do not disagree.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 09:52 PM

US Threatens New ICC Sanctions Unless Court Pledges Not to Prosecute Trump

Somebody's really worried. MAGA just doesn't get it. Whatever sanctions the Trump admin can impose can be reversed by the next president. And if the next president is a democrat, any sanctions will be reversed. The whole world knows this so Trump's threats are empty.

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time".

#11 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-12-11 06:26 AM

Innocent people do that all the time.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-11 06:56 AM

This is Turnip worrying about his own skin once he is out of office and no longer protected by his immunity clause granted him by SCOTUS. He could very likely wind up like Putin or Netanyahu in that he can't leave his country without worry about being arrested for war crimes.

That means he couldn't go golfing at his own courses in Scotland...so demeaning.

#13 | Posted by BBQ at 2025-12-11 10:41 AM

This is Turnip worrying about his own skin once he is out of office and no longer protected by his immunity clause granted him by SCOTUS. He could very likely wind up like Putin or Netanyahu in that he can't leave his country without worry about being arrested for war crimes.
That means he couldn't go golfing at his own courses in Scotland...so demeaning.

#13 | Posted by BBQ at 2025-12-11 10:41 AM | Reply | Flag:

1) Dummkopf Trumpf was served legal papers through one of his Scotland golf courses for not paying Christopher Steele after losing a lawsuit to him: www.dailymail.co.uk

2) Dummkopf Trumpf owns a tremendous international real estate empire which the ICC can go after if he is ever prosecuted for war crimes: www.icc-cpi.int

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-11 12:59 PM

Sounds like Trump is reaching the end of his rope.

I say, let the ICC do its thing.

However,

What we need NOW, in our own country, in November, is a mega-tsunami Blue Wave in all three branches of government and a thorough housecleaning leading to Impeachments (including the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary) and charges against the rest of Trump's cabinet for aiding and abetting Trump's war crimes.

Let's just get the whole stinking dumpster of criminal Constitution violating mobsters out of our hair and, hopefully, in prison.

Just do it! And watch the rats as they try to jump ship.

#15 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-12-12 06:27 AM

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