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.

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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    10 months ago

    The scary part of all these kinds of arguments are that if they were somehow successful and got a court to uphold this as valid/law, imagine the next sweet talking purely evil piece of shit having power cart blanch, anything goes. These “religious” assholes alone could probably think of stuff that would make Hitler blush.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah. There’s a reason most of the world rebelled and moved away from monarchies and other totalitarian governments.