According to the Times, this tactic by Trump appears grounded in the assumption that the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, would not want to risk "forging new legal ground" by hitting a sitting President with a grand jury subpoena. The shorthand for that argument, of course, is that a criminal President can stand astride the American Justice system and piss on it.
"Ensuring that the office remains sacred and above the fray of shifting political winds and gamesmanship is of critical importance," they wrote.
What a crock.
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