U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday.

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    10 months ago

    the point they’re trying to make here is that, because Trump was acquitted by the Senate, this prosecution would amount to double jeopardy.

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      10 months ago

      They made that case because he wasn’t convicted. As a lawyer, you play as many cards as you have. They know it’s bs, we know it, and the judges know it too.

      I’m saying that if the argument worked, hypothetically, they would use it as bitch cudgel and a shield.

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        10 months ago

        oh, sure. I’m not sayin their argument is valid, just why they made it.