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https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2024/trump-immunity-hearing-president-assassinate-rival-not-prosecuted
Former president Donald Trump’s lawyer argued that
presidential immunity would cover the U.S. president
ordering political rivals to be assassinated by SEAL
Team Six.
During a hearing at a federal appeals court on
Tuesday, Trump’s lead lawyer John Sauer made a
sweeping argument for executive immunity, essentially
saying that only a president who has been impeached
and removed from office by Congress could be
criminally prosecuted. Therefore, Sauer argued, the
former president should be shielded from criminal
prosecution.
One of the judges asked Sauer: “Could a president
who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political
rival, and is not impeached, would he be subject to
criminal prosecution?”
Sauer responded: “If he were impeached and convicted
first... there is a political process that would have
to occur.”
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