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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview Thursday with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he doesn’t think presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution for actions taken while in office, as the Supreme Court heard arguments on the issue.
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office. … He didn’t get away with anything, yet,” McConnell said in 2021, adding, “we have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being [held] accountable by either one.”
“That’s [still] my view,” McConnell said Thursday. “The president clearly needs some kind of immunity, or he’d be in court all the time,” McConnell noted. But he said he didn’t think it should be absolute, as Trump has argued.
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Senate Minority Leader McConnell tells @MeetThePress that he doesn’t think presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution for actions they took while in office, as the Supreme Court hears arguments on the issue. https://t.co/JgdZd6OtKS
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 25, 2024