‘Bulletproof!’ Anti-Trump George Conway Gushes To CNN’s Kaitlan Collins About ‘Masterful’ Order ‘Eviscerating’ Trump Immunity

 

Anti-Trump attorney George Conway gushed to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins about the “masterful” appeals court decision that “eviscerated” former President Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity.

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Trump’s appeal in a 57-page opinion Tuesday in a blistering opinion that stunned many analysts with its force and clarity.

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Conway ticked off several of the reasons he found the decision so “bulletproof” — and unlikely to be changed by the Supreme Court:

KAITLAN COLLINS: Why do you believe this ruling, as you put it, was masterful?

GEORGE CONWAY: It was masterful, because it combined so many elements!

It combined constitutional text, judicial precedent history, and just sheer logic, and the party’s own concessions, Trump’s own concessions, to make just an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that is just inexorably — inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune. And it was just so well done.

And it also, one other aspect of the decision, which makes it even more bulletproof, is the fact that they narrowly focused, on the exact situation, in this case.

They weighed the potential costs of not having immunity, which is what Trump’s talked about, which is the danger of a floodgate of litigation, which they — of criminal litigation, which they pooh- poohed. And they matched it up against, as they were required to do by the immunity case law, they matched it up against the public interest. And the public interest wasn’t just the public interest in the

enforcement, generally, of the criminal law. But this was the public’s interest in constitutional democracy and in the peaceful transition of power.

And when you weigh the two up against each other, there’s just no question.

COLLINS: So, the real question here is how does the Supreme Court read this? Because Trump’s team says they do plan to appeal it. I mean, you say that it doesn’t require further review.

CONWAY: Yes, it doesn’t, because I don’t — I mean, this opinion is so good and so clear, so comprehensive, there’s nothing in it that could be possibly attacked.

And I don’t see how even the Supreme Court could write, I don’t see how any judge any court anywhere, including the Supreme Court, could write a better opinion that more accurately states what the law is and should be.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.

Tags: