REPORT: Trump Is Pressuring GOP Lawmakers To Write New Law Shielding Him From Any Future State Charges

Rolling Stone reports:

Trump seems convinced that if he wins another four years in the White House, state prosecutors will still be waiting for him on the other side of his term — ready to put him on trial, or even in prison, just as they are now.

To avoid such risks, the former and perhaps future president of the United States wants Congress to create a very specific insurance policy that would help keep him out of prison forever, two sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Trump vaguely alluded to this idea last week outside his New York criminal hush money trial, when he said he has urged Republican lawmakers to pass “laws to stop things like this.”

In recent months, the sources say, Trump has spoken to several GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill, attorneys, and other associates about the possibility of Republicans passing legislation in a second Trump term that would shield former presidents (i.e. Trump) from non-federal prosecutions.

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Trump is convinced state prosecutors will be waiting for him on the other side of a potential second term.

So, he’s already pressuring GOP lawmakers to pass laws to protect him from that: https://t.co/YDL7eE1doF pic.twitter.com/mySsRncD6W

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