Maddow on Immunity Case: Trump Got 105 Percent of What They Were Asking for from Supreme Court
‘It’s outrageous they’ve taken it up’
Jul 2, 2024 11:00 AM
By Grabien Staff
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MADDOW: “And once the election happens, if he wins, he makes all the prosecutions go away anyway. I really did not expect that they would do this. And they, you know, Donald Trump and his counsel asked for this 100 percent absolute immunity thing, which was insane. I would say they got 105 percent of what they were asking for. They got immunity from this court despite some of the language in Justice Roberts’ — the ruling saying that there was some measure of humility or some measure of restraint. The practical impact of what they have done is to give Trump immunity that even he and his counsel did not ask for. And given that the hypotheticals over the course of these arguments, as you rightly pointed out, included things like can the president assassinate a rival, I think we have to look at the Supreme Court’s affirmative answer to that — yes, you can.”
