Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump Team ‘Feeling Very Good About’ Immunity Hearing Where Assassination Theory Was Raised
New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman revealed that former President Donald Trump’s team is “feeling very good” about the Supreme Court immunity hearing, during which a shocking assassination theory was raised.
Trump attorney John Sauer — the attorney who argued at an appeals court hearing that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first — argued that same appeal before the Supreme Court on Thursday.
At that hearing, Sauer tripled down by arguing ordering the assassination of rivals “could well be” covered by presidential immunity, as could ordering a military coup.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Haberman — whose Trumpworld sources are unrivaled — how Team Trump feels about how things went:
BLITZER: It was interesting. On the immunity hearing at the US Supreme Court today, Maggie, how is the Trump team thinking about what could practically be a major victory for him delaying the federal election subversion trial?
HABERMAN: They’ve been very happy, Wolf, the Trump team since it was learned that this oral argument was going to be on the calendar, it meant that there was going to be a delay, that the probability of a January 6th federal related trial happening before election day was much slimmer. And you heard questions that suggested from the Supreme Court justices earlier today that they are open to some argument that there is some level of immunity granted a president.
And so Trump’s team is feeling very good about that case. We’ll see what ends up happening. But at the moment, this trial in Manhattan is the only one that is taking place this year that we know of and right now it doesn’t look like that’s going to change.
BLITZER: We’ll see what happens. Maggie Haberman, thank you very, very much.
Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.
