Biden's Justice Dept may defend Trump in Capitol riot lawsuits

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23. I don't know what law gives the president the right to sweeping immunity.

I would think that immunity would apply only to the performance of the duties of the president. How is it within the duty of a president to instigate a violent attack and call for the overthrow of a legal election? Following the idea that a president can say and do anything and enjoy absolute immunity because since he’s president everything he does is part of his duties is absurd. In that case Trump could have stood in public and addressed the Oath Keepers directly by telling them to go to the Capitol and murder Nancy Pelosi and that would simply have been an action taken during the performance of his duties. Not everything a president does or says is part of his duties, and that difference e needs to be clarified. Otherwise, the president truly is above the law.