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.

  • gregorumEnglish
    42•10 months ago

    This might be the dumbest thing he could’ve done. The judges are going to freak out about this, and just say no. That one judge, during questioning, was like, are you fucking kidding me?

    • circuitfarmer
      3•10 months ago

      After months years of media coverage about Trump and his stupid actions and stupid mouth, he’s yet to see any real consequences. It doesn’t surprise me that he keeps raising (lowering?) his own bar.

  • @jordanlund
    33•10 months ago

    Imagining Dark Brandon going “Well, this problem just solved itself…”

  • ZeusbottomEnglish
    23•10 months ago

    Hey hey hey, this is missing important context: Only if that rival were impeached first.

    … but seriously, how did we get here as a nation

  • athos77
    13•10 months ago

    They’re claiming he can’t be charged unless he’s impeached by the House, convicted by the Senate, and removed from office. Everyone is focusing on it he kills a political rival, but no one’s thinking it through - they’re acting like it’ll be just one murder, but he has no impulse control.

    He kills his enemies, then he kills anyone in the House who looks like they’ll vote for impeachment - they may or may not need to vote in replacement Representatives. If he’s still impeached, he kills any Senators who look like they’ll vote to convict (again, they may need to vote in replacement Senators). If he’s convicted, he can send his assassins against the people who would remove him from office.

    So essentially, be gets to do what he wants until he’s stopped, but he can just keep murdering Senators and Representatives until either there isn’t a quorum or everyone is too scared of being assassinated for vote against him.