Republicans Won't Dispute Trump's Claim To Total Immunity From Prosecution
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Republicans are again giving the former president a pass as he steamrolls his way to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump made the extraordinary argument in federal court on Tuesday that he should be immune from criminal prosecution for any action taken while he was in the Oval Office, with his lawyers even conceding the possibility that a president could use the military to assassinate a political rival and still escape jail time.
Yet on Capitol Hill, just a few blocks away from the hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, many congressional Republicans couldn’t find it in themselves to reject the reasoning that presidents are above the law.
GOP senators hemmed and hawed, begged off questions by saying they were unfamiliar with the details of the case or simply deferred to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to weigh in on the matter. It’s the latest example of Republicans giving Trump a pass as he steamrolls his way to the GOP presidential nomination.
“I choose not to get involved and comment about any of the people running for the nomination,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday when asked if he still believed Trump could be held liable in court for his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol while Congress met to certify the electoral vote.
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