Just to add to the chaos, today a lawyer for Donald Trump argued, before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan, that Donald Trump could literally murder someone in cold blood and nobody could do a thing about it. The appeals court is considering the Manhattan district attorney’s office’s subpoena of Trump’s tax returns as part of an investigation of the Trump Organization.
The lawyer, William Consovoy, was specifically asked about "the Fifth Avenue example," Donald Trump's 2016 claim that he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
As reported by Bloomberg, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin asked Consovoy flat out: Would Trump be immune? "Local authorities couldn't investigate, they couldn't do anything about it?"
Only after he had been removed from office, claimed Consovoy. But "I'm talking about while in office. Nothing could be done? That's your position?" asked Chin again.
"That is correct."
Local authorities could conduct an investigation but Trump's lawyer argued that as president, Trump could murder someone in broad daylight and still be immune from criminal charges or even subpoenas, so long as he held office.
That is their position. And that is what Trump's legal team is asking the federal courts to codify.