re: Trump’s Boldest Argument Yet: Immunity From Prosecution for Assassinations

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If Trump or any President actually called for the assassination of a political rival, they would be impeached faster than you could say, "Richard Nixon".

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You mean a domestic political rival.

We've called for the assassination of foreign political rivals probably dozens of times. How many times did we try to kill Fidel Castro? The POTUS had to know about all of that.

But here's the problem. I'm not sure if a Democrat was caught putting out a hit on a Republican and they had the numbers in Congress, I'm not at all sure that a Democratic POTUS would be impeached for that. That's how wantonly and ruthlessly lawless they have become.

The basic premise of what Trump's lawyers are arguing is valid IMO. IMO our separation of powers exists and was set up to cover this, and the way it was arranged was that Congress would do its job by impeaching and the the DOJ would take over from there.

The problem is that Congress doesn't do its job anymore.