Obama-era appearing Solicitor General Neal Katyal on Thursday marveled on the gall of Donald Trump’s multi-layered argument about why he shouldn’t be prosecuted within the hush-money fee case, which is one in all 4 prison circumstances dealing with the previous president.
“Altogether, chutzpah doesn’t begin to describe these claims,” Katyal informed MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. “These are claims that the guy can’t see straight. I mean, in what constitution on Earth would permit that seven-fold kind of argument for absolute impunity? It’s a recipe for disaster.”
Judge Juan Merchan, who’s overseeing the case, earlier within the day rejected Trump’s request to dismiss 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information, associated to the Stormy Daniels affair. Jury choice within the trial is now slated to start out on Mar. 25.
A former president is dealing with a prison trial “for the first time in our history,” Katyal famous to O’Donnell, earlier than spelling out Trump’s audacious “seven-fold” argument towards prosecution.
Trump earlier than his 2016 victory tried to cowl up his alleged liaison with Daniels and the later fee in a bid to win the election, mentioned Katyal. Then, secondly, as soon as he was president, he claimed he couldn’t be indicted for previous crimes whereas in workplace.
Thirdly, Katyal mentioned, Trump dedicated “more crimes in office” however claimed immunity, after which fourthly dedicated much more whereas making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election outcome and keep in mentioned workplace.
“So then, fifth, they try and impeach him and he gets impeached by the House of Representatives. And then he says he can’t be convicted because the remedy is actually to prosecute him after he leaves office. He shouldn’t be impeached,” Katyal defined.
“Then, sixth, he leaves office and he’s prosecuted. And he says, ‘I can’t be prosecuted because I was president at the time and I’m absolutely immune for acts I took while I was president at the time.’”
“And then, seventh, finally, for acts for when he wasn’t president, he’s now saying he can’t be prosecuted for those either […] because he’s running for president again and is a presidential candidate.”
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