Elliot Williams Floats Kidnap Hypothetical on Trump Immunity [Video]

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams torpedoed former President Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity by floating a scenario in which a president kidnaps and harms a Supreme Court justice in order to appoint a replacement.

Trump attorney John Sauer — the attorney who argued at an appeals court hearing that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first — argued that same appeal before the Supreme Court on Thursday.

At that hearing, Sauer tripled down by arguing ordering the assassination of rivals “could well be” covered by presidential immunity, as could ordering a military coup.

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Williams smacked down that line of thinking with a seemingly bulletproof hypothetical: