Daily Mail Online Article RatingTrump lawyer Alina Habba insists ex-president 'didn't kill anyone'
Jan 10, 2024 View Original Article
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| "Haity said the hearing went 'off the rails' when a judge asked Trump lawyer John Sauer about the extent of immunity Trump enjoys from his time as president'The presentation in the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals before the three-judge panel was astounding,' said Raskin. '" | Positive | 64% Conservative |
| "Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucusesThe case is set to go to the Supreme Court, but if the judges side with him, it could derail Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal caseThe Appeals Court is considering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (L) against Trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity from prosecutionSpecial counsel James Pearce, arguing for the government, went back to the analogy in his own time speaking to the judicial panel." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has set a trial date of March 4, the day before Super Tuesday, and an appeal by Trump to the entire circuit or the Supreme Court could stall the case." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "And I feel that as a president you have to have immunity,' Trump said." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Earlier, Trump arrived at the federal appeals court in Washington D.C. for the hearing, which will have major implications for his 2024 campaign." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucuses." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump has a commanding lead over his Republican rivals heading into the primary season that will be interrupted by court appearances." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "(Trump sold the lease at an estimated $100 million profit)." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "As Trump looked on in court appeals court judge Florence Pan asked his lawyer: 'A yes or no question." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "As we said it's the opening of a Pandora's Box,' Trump said." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Trump spoke after a three-judge U.S. Appeals Court heard oral arguments inside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, located steps away from the Capitol where his supporters rioted on January 6 and from the former D.C. hotel that was a hub of activity during his presidency." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Trump tore into President Biden and warned of 'bedlam' if his prosecution is allowed to go forward, in an angry statement just minutes after his lawyer argued in court he enjoys absolute immunity from his time as president." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "A reporter shouted a question to Trump after he had completed his remarks about his 'bedlam' comment, and whether he would tell them 'no matter what, no violence.'" | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "'Whatever immunities a sitting President may enjoy, the United States has only one Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong 'get-out-of-jail-free' pass,' Chutkan wrote.'Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability.'Trump then challenged the decision with the appeals court." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump and his lawyers essentially asserted that the president has the right to assassinate people, to kill people without any prospect of prosecution unless they're first impeached by the House and convicted in the Senate.'Then he took the argument to its extreme. 'Say there's a narrow margin in the Senate of a two or three vote in the opposition party, what's to keep him from murdering members of the Senate to make sure that he doesn't get convicted there in order to deny a two-thirds majority?''He could kill them and then he can't be impeached or convicted because he's murdered his opposition and can't be prosecuted for it because he hasn't been impeached or convicted.'He called the argument 'utterly ludicrous,' he said, as reported by Mediaite." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "So they're losing in every poll, losing in almost every demographic...numbers came out today that are really very mind-boggling if you happen to be Joe Biden,' Trump said at a Washington, D.C. hotel." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Sauer said to allow prosecution of a president for official acts 'would open a Pandora's box from which this government may never recover.'Pearce said in the event of a drone strike that killed civilians, 'The court would properly recognize some kind of immunity,' but argued, 'That is nothing like what we've got here.'If the panel rules against Trump, he could try to appeal his case to the entire D.C. Court of Appeals, and then go to the Supreme Court." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The most piercing query came when appeals court judge Florence Pan asked Sauer whether Trump could order SEAL team 6 to assassinate a political rival and still be prosecuted for the act." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "His lawyer said he was facing a 'political prosecution'He was picking up on a phrase his lawyer John Sauer used in court, and one his lawyer John Lauro made alongside Trump,'If we adopt what the Special Counsel wants, if we adopt what President Biden wants, then we open the Pandora's box to political prosecution after political prosecution after political prosecution,' said Lauro." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump has argued he has presidential immunity in multiple cases and is already facing challenges to kick him off the ballot from states including Colorado and Maine." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Habba, the Bedminister New Jersey-based lawyer who defends Trump in courtrooms and on television, called Trump's case a 'slam dunk,' in an appearance on Sean Haity's program on Fox News hours after a three-judge panel grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer about the immunity issue." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Trump walked away without responding." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "A lower court has already ruled that Trump is not immune, and District Judge Tanya Chutkan has refused to dismiss the case." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "It came as a new CBS News poll shows 64 percent of Americans do not think Trump should be immune from prosecution for actions he took as president, while 34 percent think he should be." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "That prompted on-air ridicule from Trump rivals and prompted predictions of an adverse ruling for Trump even from some of his allies." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba pushed back on 'hypotheticals' after a judge asked another Trump lawyer whether his theory of immunity would allow Trump to have the military assassinate and avoid prosecution for it'He didn't cause an insurrection." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Trump is trying to toss his criminal indictment over January 6 in Washington, D.C. in part on his immunity claims." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Former House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued on CNN that the position could even allow Trump to hypothetically order the assassination of senators to avoid impeachment, thereby remaining ineligible for criminal prosecution for the initial hypothetical extrajudicial killing." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump claims he should be shielded from prosecution because he was carrying out his official duties as president when he investigated fraud claims from Joe Biden's 2020 election win." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Then Trump brought out President Obama's ordering of drone strikes, 'which were bad." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "Trump made the comments as he called the Biden administration a 'threat to democracy' and once again claimed to have uncovered 'tremendous voter fraud' despite multiple court findings rulings against his and his allies' claims." | Negative | -80% Liberal |
| "Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary." | Negative | -98% Liberal |
| "Haity said the hearing went 'off the rails' when a judge asked Trump lawyer John Sauer about the extent of immunity Trump enjoys from his time as president'The presentation in the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals before the three-judge panel was astounding,' said Raskin. '" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Haity said the hearing went 'off the rails' when a judge asked Trump lawyer John Sauer about the extent of immunity Trump enjoys from his time as president'The presentation in the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals before the three-judge panel was astounding,' said Raskin. '" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Haity said the hearing went 'off the rails' when a judge asked Trump lawyer John Sauer about the extent of immunity Trump enjoys from his time as president'The presentation in the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals before the three-judge panel was astounding,' said Raskin. '" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucusesThe case is set to go to the Supreme Court, but if the judges side with him, it could derail Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal caseThe Appeals Court is considering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (L) against Trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity from prosecutionSpecial counsel James Pearce, arguing for the government, went back to the analogy in his own time speaking to the judicial panel." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucusesThe case is set to go to the Supreme Court, but if the judges side with him, it could derail Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal caseThe Appeals Court is considering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (L) against Trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity from prosecutionSpecial counsel James Pearce, arguing for the government, went back to the analogy in his own time speaking to the judicial panel." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucusesThe case is set to go to the Supreme Court, but if the judges side with him, it could derail Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal caseThe Appeals Court is considering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (L) against Trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity from prosecutionSpecial counsel James Pearce, arguing for the government, went back to the analogy in his own time speaking to the judicial panel." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has set a trial date of March 4, the day before Super Tuesday, and an appeal by Trump to the entire circuit or the Supreme Court could stall the case." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "And I feel that as a president you have to have immunity,' Trump said." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Earlier, Trump arrived at the federal appeals court in Washington D.C. for the hearing, which will have major implications for his 2024 campaign." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucuses." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Judge Michelle Childs brought up the Midlands Asphalt Corp. v. U.S. case - a potential precedent that has intrigued legal analysts because it provides a potential way for the court to quickly dismiss Trump's appeal on jurisdictional grounds." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "But Pearce expressed his preference that the court rule 'on the merits' of Trump's claim of absolute immunity for official acts done while president." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "But Pearce expressed his preference that the court rule 'on the merits' of Trump's claim of absolute immunity for official acts done while president." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "(Trump sold the lease at an estimated $100 million profit)." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "As Trump looked on in court appeals court judge Florence Pan asked his lawyer: 'A yes or no question." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "As we said it's the opening of a Pandora's Box,' Trump said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Police secure the outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse before Trump's arrivalThe former president, 77, will be at the US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, where a three-judge panel will decide whether charges brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith should be dismissedHenderson has already been involved with Trump cases, including whether Congress could access his tax records." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Police secure the outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse before Trump's arrivalThe former president, 77, will be at the US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, where a three-judge panel will decide whether charges brought against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith should be dismissedHenderson has already been involved with Trump cases, including whether Congress could access his tax records." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Trump spoke after a three-judge U.S. Appeals Court heard oral arguments inside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, located steps away from the Capitol where his supporters rioted on January 6 and from the former D.C. hotel that was a hub of activity during his presidency." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Trump tore into President Biden and warned of 'bedlam' if his prosecution is allowed to go forward, in an angry statement just minutes after his lawyer argued in court he enjoys absolute immunity from his time as president." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump tore into President Biden and warned of 'bedlam' if his prosecution is allowed to go forward, in an angry statement just minutes after his lawyer argued in court he enjoys absolute immunity from his time as president." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "'It'll be Bedlam in the country,' former President Donald Trump said Tuesday, speaking of what will happen if he faces prosecution despite his claim of 'absolute immunity.'" | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "'It's very unfair when a political opponent is prosecuted by the DOJ, by Biden's DOJ." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "A reporter shouted a question to Trump after he had completed his remarks about his 'bedlam' comment, and whether he would tell them 'no matter what, no violence.'" | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump's lawyers will argue he is immune from criminal prosecution in election fraud cases in a federal appeals court hearing that will have major implications for his 2024 campaignThe Republican frontruer's motorcade turned into the US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday morning, surrounded by cops and securityThe judge also put Trump's claim to immunity to the test by asking if a president could sell U.S. military secrets, or sell pardons, without then being criminally prosecuted." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump's lawyers will argue he is immune from criminal prosecution in election fraud cases in a federal appeals court hearing that will have major implications for his 2024 campaignThe Republican frontruer's motorcade turned into the US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday morning, surrounded by cops and securityThe judge also put Trump's claim to immunity to the test by asking if a president could sell U.S. military secrets, or sell pardons, without then being criminally prosecuted." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "He said: 'To authorize the prosecution of a president for official acts would open a Pandora's box from which this nation may never recover.'The grilling from the bench has high stakes not just for Trump's criminal case, but for the timing of his trial." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "'Whatever immunities a sitting President may enjoy, the United States has only one Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong 'get-out-of-jail-free' pass,' Chutkan wrote.'Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability.'Trump then challenged the decision with the appeals court." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Trump's position both acknowledged a limit to presidential immunity - it could go forward if a president had been impeached - and put it to a standard that faces multiple practical problems." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump and his lawyers essentially asserted that the president has the right to assassinate people, to kill people without any prospect of prosecution unless they're first impeached by the House and convicted in the Senate.'Then he took the argument to its extreme. 'Say there's a narrow margin in the Senate of a two or three vote in the opposition party, what's to keep him from murdering members of the Senate to make sure that he doesn't get convicted there in order to deny a two-thirds majority?''He could kill them and then he can't be impeached or convicted because he's murdered his opposition and can't be prosecuted for it because he hasn't been impeached or convicted.'He called the argument 'utterly ludicrous,' he said, as reported by Mediaite." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "So they're losing in every poll, losing in almost every demographic...numbers came out today that are really very mind-boggling if you happen to be Joe Biden,' Trump said at a Washington, D.C. hotel." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "So they're losing in every poll, losing in almost every demographic...numbers came out today that are really very mind-boggling if you happen to be Joe Biden,' Trump said at a Washington, D.C. hotel." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Inside the courtroom, Trump's attorney faced a blizzard of questions from the judges over his claims of presidential immunity - including whether he could use the military to assassinate a political rival." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "In fact, Joe Biden could be prosecuted for trying to stop this man from becoming the next President of the United States,' he said." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, would he be subject to a criminal prosecution?'Trump lawyer John Sauer, the former Missouri solicitor general, responded: 'If he were impeached and convicted first.''So your answer is no,' shot back Pan." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Sauer said to allow prosecution of a president for official acts 'would open a Pandora's box from which this government may never recover.'Pearce said in the event of a drone strike that killed civilians, 'The court would properly recognize some kind of immunity,' but argued, 'That is nothing like what we've got here.'If the panel rules against Trump, he could try to appeal his case to the entire D.C. Court of Appeals, and then go to the Supreme Court." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Sauer said to allow prosecution of a president for official acts 'would open a Pandora's box from which this government may never recover.'Pearce said in the event of a drone strike that killed civilians, 'The court would properly recognize some kind of immunity,' but argued, 'That is nothing like what we've got here.'If the panel rules against Trump, he could try to appeal his case to the entire D.C. Court of Appeals, and then go to the Supreme Court." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "His lawyer said he was facing a 'political prosecution'He was picking up on a phrase his lawyer John Sauer used in court, and one his lawyer John Lauro made alongside Trump,'If we adopt what the Special Counsel wants, if we adopt what President Biden wants, then we open the Pandora's box to political prosecution after political prosecution after political prosecution,' said Lauro." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "[Biden] could be prosecuted for that." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba defended her client by saying he 'didn't kill anyone' after an appeals court judge poked a hole in his immunity claim during a consequential court hearing." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "He was referencing Obama's ordering of hundreds of drone strikes to target Al Qaeda and other extremists in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Sauer argued that allowing for the prosecution for his official acts would open up a 'Pandora's box.'He asked if George W. Bush could be prosecuted for waging war on Iraq based on false intelligence, or if Barack Obama could be prosecuted for a drone strike." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Trump has argued he has presidential immunity in multiple cases and is already facing challenges to kick him off the ballot from states including Colorado and Maine." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "All three judges, two appointed by Biden and one appointed by George W. Bush, asked tough questions of Trump's defense, which some observers have called an effort to run out the clock on his scheduled March 4 in D.C. relating to his election overturn effort." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "All three judges, two appointed by Biden and one appointed by George W. Bush, asked tough questions of Trump's defense, which some observers have called an effort to run out the clock on his scheduled March 4 in D.C. relating to his election overturn effort." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Habba, the Bedminister New Jersey-based lawyer who defends Trump in courtrooms and on television, called Trump's case a 'slam dunk,' in an appearance on Sean Haity's program on Fox News hours after a three-judge panel grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer about the immunity issue." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Habba, the Bedminister New Jersey-based lawyer who defends Trump in courtrooms and on television, called Trump's case a 'slam dunk,' in an appearance on Sean Haity's program on Fox News hours after a three-judge panel grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer about the immunity issue." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Habba, the Bedminister New Jersey-based lawyer who defends Trump in courtrooms and on television, called Trump's case a 'slam dunk,' in an appearance on Sean Haity's program on Fox News hours after a three-judge panel grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer about the immunity issue." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump walked away without responding." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "A lower court has already ruled that Trump is not immune, and District Judge Tanya Chutkan has refused to dismiss the case." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "It came as a new CBS News poll shows 64 percent of Americans do not think Trump should be immune from prosecution for actions he took as president, while 34 percent think he should be." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "That prompted on-air ridicule from Trump rivals and prompted predictions of an adverse ruling for Trump even from some of his allies." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba pushed back on 'hypotheticals' after a judge asked another Trump lawyer whether his theory of immunity would allow Trump to have the military assassinate and avoid prosecution for it'He didn't cause an insurrection." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba pushed back on 'hypotheticals' after a judge asked another Trump lawyer whether his theory of immunity would allow Trump to have the military assassinate and avoid prosecution for it'He didn't cause an insurrection." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Trump is trying to toss his criminal indictment over January 6 in Washington, D.C. in part on his immunity claims." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Former House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued on CNN that the position could even allow Trump to hypothetically order the assassination of senators to avoid impeachment, thereby remaining ineligible for criminal prosecution for the initial hypothetical extrajudicial killing." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Former House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued on CNN that the position could even allow Trump to hypothetically order the assassination of senators to avoid impeachment, thereby remaining ineligible for criminal prosecution for the initial hypothetical extrajudicial killing." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Trump claims he should be shielded from prosecution because he was carrying out his official duties as president when he investigated fraud claims from Joe Biden's 2020 election win." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump claims he should be shielded from prosecution because he was carrying out his official duties as president when he investigated fraud claims from Joe Biden's 2020 election win." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Then Trump brought out President Obama's ordering of drone strikes, 'which were bad." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Then Trump brought out President Obama's ordering of drone strikes, 'which were bad." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Trump made the comments as he called the Biden administration a 'threat to democracy' and once again claimed to have uncovered 'tremendous voter fraud' despite multiple court findings rulings against his and his allies' claims." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump made the comments as he called the Biden administration a 'threat to democracy' and once again claimed to have uncovered 'tremendous voter fraud' despite multiple court findings rulings against his and his allies' claims." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
82% : Hannity said the hearing went 'off the rails' when a judge asked Trump lawyer John Sauer about the extent of immunity Trump enjoys from his time as president'The presentation in the D.C. Circuit Court of appeals before the three-judge panel was astounding,' said Raskin. '53% : Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucusesThe case is set to go to the Supreme Court, but if the judges side with him, it could derail Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal caseThe Appeals Court is considering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (L) against Trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity from prosecutionSpecial counsel James Pearce, arguing for the government, went back to the analogy in his own time speaking to the judicial panel.
52% : U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has set a trial date of March 4, the day before Super Tuesday, and an appeal by Trump to the entire circuit or the Supreme Court could stall the case.
51% : And I feel that as a president you have to have immunity,' Trump said.
50% : Earlier, Trump arrived at the federal appeals court in Washington D.C. for the hearing, which will have major implications for his 2024 campaign.
50% : Trump won't be asked any questions or interact with the judge directly before he returns to the campaign trail with just six days until the Iowa caucuses.
49% : Trump has a commanding lead over his Republican rivals heading into the primary season that will be interrupted by court appearances.
47% : (Trump sold the lease at an estimated $100 million profit).
46% : As Trump looked on in court appeals court judge Florence Pan asked his lawyer: 'A yes or no question.
44% : As we said it's the opening of a Pandora's Box,' Trump said.
41% : Trump spoke after a three-judge U.S. Appeals Court heard oral arguments inside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse, located steps away from the Capitol where his supporters rioted on January 6 and from the former D.C. hotel that was a hub of activity during his presidency.
40% : Trump tore into President Biden and warned of 'bedlam' if his prosecution is allowed to go forward, in an angry statement just minutes after his lawyer argued in court he enjoys absolute immunity from his time as president.
39% : A reporter shouted a question to Trump after he had completed his remarks about his 'bedlam' comment, and whether he would tell them 'no matter what, no violence.'
39% : 'Whatever immunities a sitting President may enjoy, the United States has only one Chief Executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong 'get-out-of-jail-free' pass,' Chutkan wrote.'Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability.'Trump then challenged the decision with the appeals court.
38% : Donald Trump and his lawyers essentially asserted that the president has the right to assassinate people, to kill people without any prospect of prosecution unless they're first impeached by the House and convicted in the Senate.'Then he took the argument to its extreme. 'Say there's a narrow margin in the Senate of a two or three vote in the opposition party, what's to keep him from murdering members of the Senate to make sure that he doesn't get convicted there in order to deny a two-thirds majority?''He could kill them and then he can't be impeached or convicted because he's murdered his opposition and can't be prosecuted for it because he hasn't been impeached or convicted.'He called the argument 'utterly ludicrous,' he said, as reported by Mediaite.
38% : So they're losing in every poll, losing in almost every demographic...numbers came out today that are really very mind-boggling if you happen to be Joe Biden,' Trump said at a Washington, D.C. hotel.
37% : Sauer said to allow prosecution of a president for official acts 'would open a Pandora's box from which this government may never recover.'Pearce said in the event of a drone strike that killed civilians, 'The court would properly recognize some kind of immunity,' but argued, 'That is nothing like what we've got here.'If the panel rules against Trump, he could try to appeal his case to the entire D.C. Court of Appeals, and then go to the Supreme Court.
36% : The most piercing query came when appeals court judge Florence Pan asked Sauer whether Trump could order SEAL team 6 to assassinate a political rival and still be prosecuted for the act.
34% : His lawyer said he was facing a 'political prosecution'He was picking up on a phrase his lawyer John Sauer used in court, and one his lawyer John Lauro made alongside Trump,'If we adopt what the Special Counsel wants, if we adopt what President Biden wants, then we open the Pandora's box to political prosecution after political prosecution after political prosecution,' said Lauro.
31% : Trump has argued he has presidential immunity in multiple cases and is already facing challenges to kick him off the ballot from states including Colorado and Maine.
29% : Habba, the Bedminister New Jersey-based lawyer who defends Trump in courtrooms and on television, called Trump's case a 'slam dunk,' in an appearance on Sean Hannity's program on Fox News hours after a three-judge panel grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer about the immunity issue.
28% : Trump walked away without responding.
26% : A lower court has already ruled that Trump is not immune, and District Judge Tanya Chutkan has refused to dismiss the case.
25% : It came as a new CBS News poll shows 64 percent of Americans do not think Trump should be immune from prosecution for actions he took as president, while 34 percent think he should be.
24% : That prompted on-air ridicule from Trump rivals and prompted predictions of an adverse ruling for Trump even from some of his allies.
20% : Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba pushed back on 'hypotheticals' after a judge asked another Trump lawyer whether his theory of immunity would allow Trump to have the military assassinate and avoid prosecution for it'He didn't cause an insurrection.
18% : Trump is trying to toss his criminal indictment over January 6 in Washington, D.C. in part on his immunity claims.
16% : Former House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) argued on CNN that the position could even allow Trump to hypothetically order the assassination of senators to avoid impeachment, thereby remaining ineligible for criminal prosecution for the initial hypothetical extrajudicial killing.
16% : Trump claims he should be shielded from prosecution because he was carrying out his official duties as president when he investigated fraud claims from Joe Biden's 2020 election win.
11% : Then Trump brought out President Obama's ordering of drone strikes, 'which were bad.
10% : Trump made the comments as he called the Biden administration a 'threat to democracy' and once again claimed to have uncovered 'tremendous voter fraud' despite multiple court findings rulings against his and his allies' claims.
1% : Trump was present inside the courtroom and spoke afterwardTrump warned of 'bedlam' if the prosecution against him continuesTrump then said Biden could be prosecuted for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which came after a delayed departure date negotiated during the Trump administration, before saying immunity was necessary.
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