Donald Trump Is the Mad-King President Our Founders Feared Most
WASHINGTON — Three and a half years after candidate Donald Trump bragged he could shoot someone in Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote, a lawyer for President Donald Trump was asked about the same scenario in a court of law.
Trump’s lawyer had gone before the judge to stop the release of the president’s tax returns, which the Manhattan district attorney had subpoenaed as part of a criminal investigation. Trump’s legal team was breathtaking in its hubris: Because he was the president, Trump was immune from the criminal laws of New York or any other state.
Did the same argument apply to Trump’s Fifth Avenue hypothetical, the judge pressed Trump’s lawyer. “Local authorities couldn’t investigate? They couldn’t do anything about it?”
Trump’s lawyer noted that his client could be held liable once he left office. But what if the sitting president shot someone on Fifth Avenue, the judge asked. “Nothing could be done?”
“That is correct,” the lawyer replied. We’ll call this Exhibit A.
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