Executive privilege...

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(05-24-2019, 01:38 PM)hollodero Wrote: ...help me out here. This is a serious question, not meant to be presumtious. If a president can use that claim for basically anything, how is he not above the law?

As I see it, Trump could shoot someone in the street, as he said, then call executive privilege over all possible proof (witness statements, video material etc.) and get away with it. As kind of a reinsurance, a president also can not be indicted obviously.

Which amounts to being above the law. Maybe shooting someone is a notch too far, but let's say it's a less obvious crime, a president could totally make everything about that crime disappear with executive privilege claims. This looks quite unprecedented in western democracies. Or am I wrong?

I'm sure one of the government experts can give a better/correct answer. But I think that's why he has to be impeached and removed from office and then investigated for the crime.

But your question does make me go "hhhmmm" if he shot someone would he immediately be arrested?