Trump Plans To Avoid Subpoenas By Invoking A Privilege He Doesn't Have

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14. Invoking executive privilege to protect crimes against the State would be a bridge too far

I could see it invoked to protect revelations that would harm the public, like a military operation gone wrong, or in foreign policy deliberations about or with other countries, or about domestic policies about which parties disagree. But about advice or strategy for seditious acts to overturn the very foundation of elected representative government? No. That is using the public tool of executive privilege, which is designed to protect the State and the country from harm and turmoil, for the private interest of one of the parties or its former head. It's a get-out-of-jail free card to protect an attempt to invalidate the collective will of the American People as expressed by their head count in a free and fair election - a democracy.