Trump's Lawyers Argue That Their Client Is Above the Law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "When Trump is facing all these things, he's doing it for us in our place," one Iowa Trump supporter told NBC News, likening the Caligulan coup-plotter to Jesus for good measure.
33% : "I think they feel this is the way they're going to try and win, and that's not the way it goes," Trump said.
32% : Trump himself has marveled that his movement would literally let him get away with murder, while expressing support for the aspiring lynchers of Mike Pence on January 6.
27% : When you talk about the threat to democracy, that's the real threat to democracy" When a Washington Post reporter followed up by asking if Trump would rule out violence from his followers, the former president walked away without replying.
25% : For starters, Trump's legal team in the Senate trial following the January 6 coup attempt argued for acquittal by using a calculus diametrically opposite to Sauer's jury-rigged argument: It wasn't for the Senate to adjudicate Trump's culpability; no, that would be for the courts to decide once Trump had left office.
22% : As veteran White House lawyer Kristy Parker told The New Republic's Greg Sargent, "Trump has threatened to use the presidency to punish enemies, reward friends, and protect himself.
21% : The jurists promptly caught the effulgent scent of Bannonism in the wind as Trump attorney John Sauer gamely made the case that Trump's repeated and flagrant lies about the conduct and outcome of the 2020 election were actually part of his presidential duties, and hence not subject to prosecution.
20% : If the courts recognize immunity for the broad array of official acts of the presidency, that will incentivize Trump to abuse those powers further.

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