If inciting an insurrection towards their own government is an action without legal repercussions, I don’t see how the law would be less lenient about straight up firing a gun at an opponent.

I by no means want any party to resolve to violent tactics. So even though I play with the thought, I really don’t want anything like it to happen. I am just curious if it’s actually the case that a sitting president has now effectively a licence to kill.

What am I missing?

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    4 months ago

    Trump could bring his own gun and shoot him and the Court would still call it official.

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      When you own the people that make the laws. You are above the law. So yes. Trump could 100% get away with it. One of the few things he’s said that wasn’t a lie.