Trump Insists ‘You Have to Have Immunity’ When Asked About His Lawyer Saying Presidents Can Order Rivals to Be Killed

Donald Trump backed up his attorney who claimed that his level of immunity as president is so comprehensive that he could order the assassination of political rivals and not be prosecuted.

The former president held a press conference in New York on Thursday where he railed yet again against his civil fraud trial. When he opened the floor to questions, a reporter brought up the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing days ago where Trump lawyer John Sauer suggested that a former president is immune from federal prosecution to the degree that he couldn’t be prosecuted for selling pardons, or even for directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent unless tried and convicted by the Senate.

Asked if he agrees with Sauer’s arguments, Trump answered, “On immunity, very simple. If a president of the United States does not have immunity, he’ll be totally ineffective. He won’t be able to do anything because it will mean he’ll be prosecute, strongly prosecuted perhaps, as soon as he leaves office by the opposing party.” He then pivoted by claiming President Joe Biden could be prosecuted with immunity for his shortcomings or the case against his son, Hunter.

“You have to have immunity for a president, and I think most people are seeing that. I’ve read a lot of real reports lately and scholarly reports that are saying you really have to have a president of this country has to have immunity, or they’re not gonna be able to function in office.”

Trump didn’t name any sources to back up his immunity claim, but he didn’t get it from Jonathan Turley, seeing as the Fox News legal analyst rejected the argument on Tuesday.

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