Rudy Giuliani reportedly argued that President Trump could shoot James Comey and dodge an indictment.
The rhetorical boast was made during an interview with HuffPost on Sunday, during which Giuliani, who leads Trump’s personal legal team, said the president is immune to subpoenas or indictments.
“In no case can he be subpoenaed or indicted,” Giuliani said Sunday, adding “I don’t know how you can indict while he’s in office. No matter what it is.”
He noted that if Trump were to go to such an extreme as to shoot Comey, as opposed to firing the FBI director like he did last spring, the president would need to be impeached by Congress before criminal prosecution could commence. “If he shot James Comey, he’d be impeached the next day,” Giuliani said. “Impeach him, and then you can do whatever you want to do to him.”
The comment served as a shock to Norm Eisen, a White House ethics lawyer under former President Barack Obama, who called the claim “absurd.”
“A president could not be prosecuted for murder? Really?” he said, according to HuffPost. “It is one of many absurd positions that follow from their argument. It is self-evidently wrong.”
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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 3, 2018
This man and his attorney are so out of control.
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