President can murder rivals without prosecution unless convicted by Senate first: Trump lawyer
lawandcrime.com
Appearing in appeals court against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, Donald Trump argued he was 'presidentially' immune from criminal charges alleging he conspired to subvert the 2020 election.

The stark question was posed to Trump’s attorney John Sauer by Judge Florence Pan: Was a president immune from prosecution for any unlawful act, at all? Could a president order his political rivals to be assassinated by Seal Team 6 as an official act? Could he sell pardons at his pleasure if he saw fit and then face no consequences for his actions?

“He would have to be impeached and convicted first,” Sauer replied,

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The judge definitely called out Trump’s lawyer tho

    Judge Henderson cited this specifically on Tuesday when hearing arguments from Sauer.

    Trump, she told him, said he couldn’t be prosecuted while he was in office, but he also conceded that he could be prosecuted once he was out.

    Logic doesn’t work with trumpets tho, they just say whatever happens to help them the most in the moment.

    Here pretty soon they’ll start saying it’s too close to the election, so this has to be postponed.

    If he wins, they’ll say it has to wait till after, then they’ll start over in the beginning.

    trumps lawyers are just going to stall as long as they can.