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.

  • Flying Squid
    6•10 months ago

    Then you don’t remember the Obama years very well.

    Also, maybe if Trump’s lawyers didn’t say a president could assassinate people, I wouldn’t have joked about it.

      • Flying Squid
        3•10 months ago

        Oh for god’s sake, lighten up. People have told dark jokes for literally centuries.

      • @YeetPics@mander.xyz
        3•10 months ago

        A political party’s front-runner’s lawyers are discussing the legality of a sitting president killing dissenters on US soil.

        This is a perfectly fucking valid reason to make that joke.

        Get over yourself.