Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive&…

Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.

The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president would be immune from prosecution on that matter or even on selling pardons.

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t know, that’s a pretty subtle point, man. You think the average person can understand that? I mean, obviously even the former president can’t, and some call him the greatest president almost as much as he calls it himself.