Steve Chapman: Trump’s claim to presidential immunity prompts a Republican about-face

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Steve Chapman: Trump’s claim to presidential immunity prompts a Republican about-face
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During Bill Clinton’s administration, conservatives universally scorned the notion that he should get a break.

Former President Donald Trump outside the courtroom of his trial in a Manhattan criminal court, April 30, 2024, in New York.

They’ve gone so far as to insist that if the president ordered a SEAL team to give his rival the Osama bin Laden treatment, he could not be prosecuted unless he was first impeached and convicted. Of course, if that were true, he could also order the assassination of any members of Congress who dared to consider removing him from office, which would put the kibosh on that possibility.

He was sued by Paula Jones, who accused him of sexually harassing her in a particularly gross manner when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a state employee. His lawyers, citing the demands of the presidency,Back then, conservatives universally scorned the notion that Clinton should get a break. Michael Barone, writing in the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, found it “preposterous for the chief executive of a republic to claim the sovereign immunity of a king or queen.

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