{"id":13894,"date":"2024-01-11T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/haley-calls-trump-attorneys-argument-against-legal-charges-ridiculous\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:04:45","slug":"haley-calls-trump-attorneys-argument-against-legal-charges-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/11\/haley-calls-trump-attorneys-argument-against-legal-charges-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Haley calls Trump attorney\u2019s argument against legal charges \u2018ridiculous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Ambassador Nikki Haley responded to a Trump attorney\u2019s defense of his immunity from legal charges as president as \u2018ridiculous\u2019 during the last GOP presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018<\/strong>Do you agree with the argument Donald Trump\u2019s lawyer made in court that a president should have immunity for any conduct, including in ordering the assassination of a political rival unless that president is impeached and convicted by the Senate for that offense first?\u2019 CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper asked Haley during a debate on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018<\/strong>No, that\u2019s ridiculous,\u2019 Haley responded. \u2018That\u2019s absolutely ridiculous. I mean, we need to use some common sense here. You can\u2019t go and kill a political rival and then claim, you know, immunity from a president. I think we have to start doing things that are right and you know Ron said we should have leaders that we can look up to. Well, then stop lying, because nobody\u2019s going to want to look up to you if you\u2019re lying.\u2019<\/p>\n

Haley continued, \u2018But what I do think we need to look at is what has President Trump done? You look at the last few years and our country is completely divided. It\u2019s divided over extremes. It\u2019s divided over hatred. It\u2019s divided over the fact that people think that if someone doesn\u2019t agree with you that they\u2019re bad. And now we have leaders in our country that decide who\u2019s good and who\u2019s bad, who\u2019s right, and who\u2019s wrong, that\u2019s not what a leader does. What a leader does is they bring out the best in people and get them to see the way forward.\u2019<\/p>\n

The question from Tapper to Haley was in reference to a comment from Trump lawyer D. John Sauer this week in a Washington D.C. courtroom where he answered with a \u2018qualified yes\u2019 when asked if Trump\u2019s immunity from prosecution as president would apply if Trump \u2018ordered S.E.A.L. Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018He would have to be impeached and convicted,\u2019 Sauer argued.<\/p>\n

Sauer said, \u2018There\u2019s a political process that would have to occur under the structure of our Constitution which would require conviction and impeachment by the Senate in these exceptional cases, as the OLC memo itself points out from the Department of Justice you\u2019d expect a speedy impeachment and conviction.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sauer argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday that the president has \u2018absolute immunity,\u2019 even after leaving office \u2014 an argument that the judges appeared to be skeptical of.<\/p>\n

Judge Karen Henderson, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush, fired back, saying: \u2018I think it\u2019s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Sauer argued that Biden, \u2018the current incumbent of the presidency is prosecuting his number one political opponent and his greatest electoral threat.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s team argued that presidents are not entitled to absolute immunity and that Trump\u2019s alleged actions following the November 2020 election fall outside a president\u2019s official job duties.<\/p>\n

\u2018The president has a unique constitutional role but he is not above the law. Separation of powers principles, constitutional text, history, precedent and immunity doctrines all point to the conclusion that a former president enjoys no immunity from prosecution,\u2019 prosecutor James Pearce said, adding that a case in which a former president is alleged to have sought to overturn an election \u2018is not the place to recognize some novel form of immunity.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Brooke Singman contributed to this report<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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