The doors have definitely blown out on Trump’s ridiculous “immunity” defense — that Trump cannot be prosecuted for anything he did as president unless he has been previously impeached and convicted (and no, that is not in the Constitution, which says he can also be criminally charged even after being impeached and convicted, but does not limit in to only being after conviction of an impeachment charge).
Trump’s lawyers argued during his second impeachment trial that impeachment was not necessary because the right place to address the issues was in the criminal justice system. Now that it is in the criminal justice system, even if the names of the lawyers have changed, they cannot rationally now argue that the criminal justice system is the wrong place because it should have been handled by impeachment earlier. Yeah, I know consistent logic is not a Trump “thing,” but this is ridiculous.
Mitch McConnell justified his vote against impeachment on those very grounds, that Trump should be held responsible in the criminal justice system, not impeachment.
And just think of the implications of what the Trump lawyers are saying: as per the hypothetical example posed by Judge Pan, whether or not a sitting president could order Seal Team Six to murder his political rivals, Trump’s lawyers said that, yes, he would be immune in the absence of a prior impeachment and conviction, to which the prosecutor responded that, by such “logic,” the sitting president could order Seal Team Six to murder his political rivals and enough senators likely to vote to convict, so that he could completely avoid prosecution.
Trump better be careful what he wishes for — currently the sitting president, the one who could order Seal Team Six around, is JOE BIDEN. By the “logic” of Trump’s attorneys, Biden could order Seal Team Six to murder Trump and as many senators as necessary. Is that really the legal precedent Trump wants to establish?
The doors have definitely blown out on Trump’s ridiculous “immunity” defense — that Trump cannot be prosecuted for anything he did as president unless he has been previously impeached and convicted (and no, that is not in the Constitution, which says he can also be criminally charged even after being impeached and convicted, but does not limit in to only being after conviction of an impeachment charge).
Trump’s lawyers argued during his second impeachment trial that impeachment was not necessary because the right place to address the issues was in the criminal justice system. Now that it is in the criminal justice system, even if the names of the lawyers have changed, they cannot rationally now argue that the criminal justice system is the wrong place because it should have been handled by impeachment earlier. Yeah, I know consistent logic is not a Trump “thing,” but this is ridiculous.
Mitch McConnell justified his vote against impeachment on those very grounds, that Trump should be held responsible in the criminal justice system, not impeachment.
And just think of the implications of what the Trump lawyers are saying: as per the hypothetical example posed by Judge Pan, whether or not a sitting president could order Seal Team Six to murder his political rivals, Trump’s lawyers said that, yes, he would be immune in the absence of a prior impeachment and conviction, to which the prosecutor responded that, by such “logic,” the sitting president could order Seal Team Six to murder his political rivals and enough senators likely to vote to convict, so that he could completely avoid prosecution.
Trump better be careful what he wishes for — currently the sitting president, the one who could order Seal Team Six around, is JOE BIDEN. By the “logic” of Trump’s attorneys, Biden could order Seal Team Six to murder Trump and as many senators as necessary. Is that really the legal precedent Trump wants to establish?