Preemptive self-protection. It's all in bad faith.
[...] Trump’s strike at Albanese was part of a broader executive order he used to sanction ICC judges and prosecutors – a campaign intended in part to head off any future attempts to hold him or his officials accountable for U.S. military action overseas, Reuters found.
[...] Albanese and the sanctioned ICC staff now sit on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside suspected al Qaeda terrorists, Mexican drug traffickers and North Korean arms dealers. “This is unjust, unfair, and persecutorial,” Albanese said in an interview in Modena in her native Italy. “I’m being punished because of my human rights work.”