the supreme court addressed this issue in 1977. didn t decide it, but they said the former president actually does have potentially a limited interest in exerting executive privilege, but they also said that in the majority of cases, the current president is going to be the one who s in best position to make the decision on executive privilege. if you look at precedent, we have seen current precedents exercise. george w. bush did it for bill clinton. barack obama did it for george w. bush. however, those cases were different because the prior presidents weren t objecting and going to court. privileges about protecting the institution of the presidency and not an individual. even if donald trump had the ability to raise executive privilege, it can t be used to hide charges or wrong doing. the court s going to have to do that balancing test. so it s a real uphill climb for trump. another viewer wants to know can a person who defies a