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Haley blasts ‘ridiculous’ claim Trump has presidential immunity to kill rivals

2024-01-11 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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Nikki Haley mocked Donald Trump’s presidential immunity legal defence as ‘ridiculous’ during the latest Republican debate in Iowa.

The 2024 hopeful was asked during a debate with Ron DeSantis by CNN host Jake Tapper if she agreed with Mr Trump that a president should have complete immunity, after he appeared at a federal appeals court earlier this week.

Lawyers for Mr Trump told a panel of judges that a president should have that immunity even if they ordered the assassination of a political rival unless they were impeached and convicted in the US Senate.

“No, that’s ridiculous. That’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Ms Haley. “You can’t go and kill a political rival and then claim, you know, immunity from a president. I think we have to start doing things that are right.”

Mr Trump’s former UN Ambassador then went on to describe the characteristics of a good leader.

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“What a leader does is they bring out the best in people and get them to see the way forward. That’s what we need in our country,” Ms Haley said. “We don’t need this chaos anymore.”

Mr Trump has asked the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court’s rejection of immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal election subversion case.

Mr Trump, who is the first and only former or sitting president to be criminally charged, faces a total of 91 felony counts across his four criminal indictments by state and federal prosecutors.

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