I wonder if Trump realizes he's arguing that our President could legally order Seal Team Six to kill him.

[Towlie]

MSNBC: Team Trump struggles mightily with the ‘assassination’ question

Two days after the exchange between Pan and Sauer, Trump himself confronted a question on the matter, with a reporter asking the Republican, “Do you agree with what your lawyers, what they said on Tuesday, that you should not be prosecuted — could not be prosecuted — if you ordered Seal Team Six to kill a political opponent?”

This was an opportunity for the likely GOP nominee to walk all of this back. Trump let the opportunity pass him by.

“I say this,” the Republican responded, “On immunity, very simple, if a president of the United States does not have immunity, he’ll be totally ineffective, because he won’t be able to do anything, because it will mean he’ll be prosecuted — strongly prosecuted, perhaps — as soon as he leaves office by the opposing party.”

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. what is seal team 6?

[CincyDem]

2. The guys who got bin Laden.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. thanks for the refresher.

[RockRaven]

3. One of these mewling access-journalism punks ought to ask him flat out:

"So Biden can just order you killed, right now? Do you think he knows?"

[senseandsensibility]

4. As usual, Rs rely on the accepted KNOWN FACT

that Dens would never do such a thing and are honest people. They just take that for granted, never acknowledge it, and do whatever they want.

[kimbutgar]

5. But he will argue he is only real president and President Biden is an illegal President

You can just hear this argument coming from the orange maggot!

[Lonestarblue]

6. Think Trump and his lawyers know that the immunity defense is going nowhere.

The point is to come up with whatever crazy defense they can to delay the trials until after the election.

[Fla Dem]

8. Exactly what I thought. Nothing would stop Biden from killing Trump....

problem solved.

[TwilightZone]

9. Of course he does.

He also knows that it would never happen. He's perfectly safe making the argument because he knows it wouldn't be used against him.

It's important to remember that Trump and his legal team have nothing to work with, so they'll throw anything and everything out there as a defense, hoping to find a needle in a haystack. Hoping to find the right technicality to keep Trump from paying hundreds of millions and keep him out of jail.

[Towlie]

10. Two-part strategy of Trump's lawyers: (1) Argue whatever makes Trump happy, and (2) get paid in advance.

[TwilightZone]

11. Agreed - your first point is exactly what's happening.

I read that they even mentioned that he's leading in the polls, as if that has any relevance.

They have an audience of one.