Presidents can assassinate their rivals, Trump lawyers boldly suggest in DC immunity case

Donald Trump’s attorneys argued Tuesday that presidents can’t be convicted of a crime if not impeached first – but a panel of appellate judges seemed skeptical. NY Post reporter Caitlin Doornbos shares this story. “Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival (and is) not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?” asked Judge Florence Pan during a 90-minute hearing in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. “If he were impeached and convicted first,” Trump lawyer John Sauer answered as the 77-year-old former president looked on. “So your answer is no,” Pan said, to which Sauer responded: “My answer is a qualified yes.” Sauer claimed that the framers of the Constitution created presidential immunity to avoid “politically motivated prosecutions” and repeatedly argued that the only exception would have been if Trump had been impeached and removed from office first. Read more at