as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
fair election results. we also haven t seen a president be the ring leader as tim hait yes s investigative committee laid out. we have never seen the president be a ring leader for all this marry netting of individuals, trying different ways, different legal strategies to toss free and fair election results into chaos, into question, into suspicion, to try to, first, threaten his own department of justice if they didn t say there was fraud where there was none, next, to get states to block the election results and also call those into question. and finally, the hail mary pass, to pressure and bully a vice president into refusing to certify those elections in the pro forma january 6th certification. let s talk about the supreme court. court watchers are loathed to make predictions about how this