Former President Donald Trump used his chat with Fox News host Sean Hannity to lean hard on the Trump-dominated Supreme Court to grant him immunity for accused crimes during his time in office.
Trump appointed three of the nine Supreme Court justices — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — more than any other president.
Hannity scored an exclusive interview with Trump on Thursday night’s special edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, during which Trump noted, “We put on three great justices, and you have some other great justices up there, and they’re not going to take the vote away from the people,” in response to a question about states banning him from the ballot.
And as the interview wrapped up, Hannity asked Trump for his “closing message to the people of New Hampshire” — which was more of a message to those justices about his claim of total immunity:
SEAN HANNITY What is your closing message to the people of New Hampshire?DONALD TRUMP It’s very simple. It’s Make America great again. But I think very important before we do this, because you were talking about the Supreme Court. They have two votes that are very important coming up. One is, as we discussed, we call it Colorado or whatever. But, you know, I really believe they’re going to leave the people to vote again. You’re the leading candidate in both parties.
You’re leading the Democrats by many, many points.DONALD TRUMP I mean, it’s hard to imagine they would do and most states have already approved it. As you know, very few states have done that. This is Colorado and a couple of others at this moment. But they have another important and that’s immunity for the president, the president of the United States. And I’m not talking about myself.DONALD TRUMP I’m talking about any president has to have immunity, because if you take immunity away from the president, so important you will have you have a president that’s not going to be able to do anything, because when he leaves office, the opposing party president, if it’s the opposing party, will indict the president for doing something that should have been good, like Obama dropped missiles and they ended up hitting a kindergarten or a school or the apartment house. A lot of people were killed.DONALD TRUMP Well, if that’s the case, he’s going to end up being indicted when he leaves office. He meant well. The missile went in the wrong direction. And other things. Look at Biden. What would happen to Biden? He’s killed our country with his policies. The border is a disaster. Everything he does is a disaster.DONALD TRUMP What he did in Afghanistan is the most embarrassing moment in the history ofour country, giving them $85 billion worth of equipment, killing our soldiers, wounding horribly our soldiers and leaving people behind. Well, when he leaves office, if he doesn’t have immunity now, I think it’s horrible what he did, but he probably I don’t know, it’s hard to believe, but he probably meant well. It’s hard to believe that he meant well. But the man is incompetent. But you have to leave. You have to leave immunity with the president.DONALD TRUMP If a president is afraid to act because they’re worried about being indicted when they leave office, a president of the United States has to have immunity, and the Supreme Court’s going to be ruling on that. If they don’t have immunity, no president is going to act. You’re going to have guys that just sit in office and are afraid to do anything.
Trump’s attorney has argued that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first.
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