Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive&…

Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.

The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president would be immune from prosecution on that matter or even on selling pardons.

  • pregnantwithrage@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 year ago

    Don’t know but I can’t recall a time where I was commenting online that I wanted someone to be assassinated. It’s just weird to joke about but it’s just so common now.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 year ago

      Then you don’t remember the Obama years very well.

      Also, maybe if Trump’s lawyers didn’t say a president could assassinate people, I wouldn’t have joked about it.

        • YeetPics
          41·
          1 year ago

          A political party’s front-runner’s lawyers are discussing the legality of a sitting president killing dissenters on US soil.

          This is a perfectly fucking valid reason to make that joke.

          Get over yourself.

    • spacesatan@lemm.ee
      31·
      1 year ago

      I cannot imagine clutching pearls this hard over a joke about assassinating somebody who themselves is responsible for thousands or more deaths. The lives of killers are so precious they’re above even jokes.