The United States Constitution Does Not Give Donald Trump Absolute Immunity for Murder

In court over Donald Trump’s illegal attempts to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, his lawyers argued (with a straight face) that the former president would be immune from criminal prosecution even if he ordered one of our nation’s most elite military units to assassinate his leading political rival.

Words like “unprecedented” and “shocking” start to lose their meaning when it comes to Donald Trump. There is a strong temptation to tune it all out, to move on, to hope he just goes away somehow. But if we don’t want to succumb to authoritarian forces, we simply must not allow ourselves to become numb or indifferent.

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The Constitution of the United States does NOT give the president — not Donald Trump, not anyone — absolute criminal immunity for murder. The fact that Donald Trump thinks it does, and that he had a lawyer say that on his behalf on the record in a court of law, is all the more evidence that he must be held accountable for his crimes against the American people and our democracy.

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