George Conway Explains How Trump's "Absolute Immunity" Defense Crumbled in Historic Ruling
The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell
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4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone it's George Conway and I'm here by myself actually I'm not |
| 0:05.2 | By myself I have Clyde here |
| 0:08.5 | The reason why Clyde is here and Sarah is not is because Sarah and I taped the podcast on Monday and on |
| 0:16.6 | Monday we hadn't had a decision yet in the immunity case involving Mr. Trump that came down the next day. |
| 0:26.0 | And so I'm taping this little supplemental insert that our team is going to put into the |
| 0:32.0 | podcast at an appropriate moment, maybe at the beginning, |
| 0:35.4 | so that you can get a little pricey of what happened in that decision that came down after |
| 0:41.5 | we did the full taping. And the decision was as you probably |
| 0:46.1 | have already heard an absolute blockbuster and it was everything that everyone expected. |
| 0:52.4 | I mean I tended the oral argument I think we may have |
| 0:54.5 | discussed it on the pod and it was there was no question that Donald Trump was |
| 1:00.2 | going to lose his argument you you know, that he could, as president, order Seal Team 6 to go up in |
| 1:07.0 | Capitol Hill and kill everybody and not be prosecuted for a crime. |
| 1:10.9 | And that just did not fly. |
| 1:12.3 | The court unanimously ruled against him and the only |
| 1:15.6 | issue really that led up leading up to the decision was people were kind of freaked |
| 1:21.4 | out about how long it was taking and it's important to put that in perspective. |
| 1:26.0 | Most appeals in the federal courts of appeals take much, much longer than the 28 days that this appeal took and this was an expedited appeal and you could have expected |
| 1:35.3 | possibly a decision in the matter of days I know I did but 28 days is still pretty fast and what we got |
| 1:42.2 | for that extra time was actually just a gem of an opinion. |
| 1:46.5 | I mean it really is I've read probably I don't know 10 tens of thousands of |
| 1:52.3 | judicial opinions since I entered law school and God held me in 1984 in 40 years. |
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