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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump’s lawyers argued in court today that a President could order Seal Team 6 to murder a political opponent and he would be immune from criminal prosecution.

What type of argument is this?   Didn’t we fight a war with Britain to get away from a king? [/quote]

It's called executive immunity.  Do you want every president from here on out looking over their shoulders for actions they took whilst in office?

You would get to a point of a feckless presidency that can't act in many cases.  Would you like Biden to be prosecuted for killing 13 children in Kabul, Afghanistan in a missile strike that Biden concurred to?  The precedent you would be setting is MADNESS.[/quote]

Is that the best example you can come up with of an unlawful act that is necessary for the president to be able to commit in order to be president? Because it seems like a pretty wide gulf between a narrow exception for foreign policy and blanket immunity.

Oh, and if Trump killed someone overseas, not in furtherance of foreign policy but in furtherance of his business interests? I'd want him prosecuted.[/quote]

There's no gulf there at all.  Because you have a DOJ stocked with personnel chosen by the president.  They are the decision makers.  All you have to be is a former president in an opposition party.

Is this rocket science for you?[/quote]

I have no doubt that if we get another Republican president his DOJ will prosecute his Democratic predecessors. Because that's how Republicans roll. [/quote]

"his DOJ"?????

You're drinkin the Kool-Aid!!

No prior Republican president has used "his DOJ" to prosecute political rivals, and no Democratic president has done so either.

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Trump tried to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/fbi-clinton-foundation.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-book.html

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