Trump’s outrageous ‘license to kill’: MAGA lawyer claims POTUS may ‘legally’ murder American rivals
See MSNBC’s Ari Melber lead coverage of the explosive appeals arguments in U.S. v Trump, the Jack Smith prosecution of Trump over Jan. 6. This extended coverage includes a special report on how Trump’s lawyer argued there is a legal power for a President to assassinate rivals in America (unless the Senate convicted a president for it after impeachment); and Melber reports on the actual law and precedent; and also interviews a range of experts, including former Head of the DOJ’s criminal division Leslie Caldwell, New York Times legal writer Emily Bazelon and former Trump White House lawyer Jim Schultz