Kaitlan Collins To Trump Lawyer Immunity Not In Constitution [Video]

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins challenged Trump attorney Will Scharf’s claim that the kind of immunity Trump seeks has been “inherent in the constitutional design” and in place for “hundreds of years.”

Trump attorney John Sauer argued before the Supreme Court on Thursday that ordering the assassination of rivals “could well be” covered by presidential immunity, as could ordering a military coup.

COLLINS: So, do you disagree with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who said, what you’re arguing could allow the seat of the presidency to become a — where you can act with impunity that any criminal act couldn’t happen, because you have nothing to fear, no prosecution.

SCHARF: We believe immunity is inherent in the constitutional design. So, that’s the system we’ve been operating under, for hundreds of years.

COLLINS: But it’s, immunity is not actually in the Constitution.

SCHARF: Well we believe that immunity naturally follows from the Constitution, the same way that civil immunity, …

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