Trump Lawyer Insists Former President ‘Didn’t Kill Anyone’ in Curious Defense of Assassinating Political Rival Argument
Trump attorney Alina Habba insisted to Sean Hannity that her client “didn’t kill anyone” in a curious defense of an immunity argument from earlier on Tuesday.
Trump attorney John Sauer told a D .C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that former President Donald Trump should have presidential immunity from all federal prosecution to overturn the 2020 election, claiming that all of his actions under investigation were done in his official capacity as president and because the Senate did not convict him for it.
But when asked if the president were to order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival, Sauer oddly argued that the president would first need to be impeached and convicted by the legislative body before he could be convicted of any criminal wrongdoing.
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley found the argument…lacking. Rep. Jamie Raskin later pointed out the folly of this argument, noting the absurd logic of this argument, that any sitting president could just order the killing of any US Senator to prevent an impeachment conviction.
Credit to Hannity for asking Habba about this bizarre defense, to which she replied by hammering the judge for posing “hypotheticals that do not currently exist.”
“The real facts are so easy to win that we have to argue now the slippery slope argument of if he kills someone, will be held accountable,” she insisted. “He didn’t kill anyone. He didn’t cause an insurrection. He didn’t get charged for it. But they’re using hypotheticals to frighten America.”
HANNITY: What about the issue of the immunity case? Uh, going before three judge panel arguments were held earlier today. At times, based on reports I read. It’s almost seem to go off the rails asking, well, what if the president, uh, instructs Seal Team Six to kill innocent people? Uh, you know, what? Would the president be acting in his capacity as the president of the United States? Would they have immunity that seemed to go off the rails, I understand. Two of the three judges, a three judge panel, were Biden appointed judges.
HABBA: That’s correct. I’ve actually been in front of a judge in New York and been asked the same question on the Michael Cohen case. I won that case on immunity. Um, it’s hypotheticals that do not currently exist, because the real facts are so easy to win that we have to now argue the slippery slope argument of if he kills someone will be held accountable. He didn’t kill anyone. He didn’t cause an insurrection. He didn’t get charged for it. But they’re using hypotheticals to frighten America. This is a slam dunk case. He should have a map. Immunity and presidential immunity.
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