Locational immunity
Here again is that weird circularity.
He took the actions in the White House, therefore you can’t touch him, therefore he gets to try to return to the White House, despite having done his best to force his way in with violent sedition last time. Which you can’t touch him for doing, because he was in the White House at the time. It’s so very heads we win tails you lose it makes my head swim.
It’s like saying you’re immune from prosecution for robbing a bank because you were in the bank when you robbed it.
How can these lawyers make these statements and keep a straight face?
Especially when the chances of them getting paid are so low?
Okay then, by this same logic, Biden while in the White House, could have Trump thrown into jail without any reason, on his say-so alone, and nobody could prosecute him for doing that very illegal thing because Biden is in the White House? Is this new extra-Constitutional provision applicable to every President, or does it only work for Republicans?
Does that mean that if he murdered someone while in the White House that he would be immune from prosecution.? Could be a nice little earner if he teamed up with a Mafia boss. The hoods bring whoever they think needs to be rubbed out to the Oval Office, where Trump and his henchmen do the rest.
Under the doctrine of stare decisis, a David Frost interview creates sufficient precedence that if the president does it, it’s not illegal.
Mike @#3: Holy shit.!
I suspect ‘while he was in the White House’ is used to mean while he was president, so, positional immunity rather than location. Which could have been true, if the actions taken were at all within the scope of being president. Still, the effect of the argument is very much that people with power to abuse can abuse that power, because… they just get to.
Oh yes that’s what it means, just as “at number 10” does, but it does kind of underline the absurdity of the whole idea.
Didn’t the orange loser boast about this: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”? (Not the same thing, I know: keeping your voters isn’t the same as not being prosecuted.)