Adam Schiff Gives Trump A Scathing ‘Suicide Pact’ Reminder

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) provided Donald Trump a reminder that even presidents have limits to their energy.

Trump’s attorneys argued in courtroom this week that presidents have “absolute immunity” even in circumstances the place they order the assassination of a political rival ― and might’t be prosecuted except impeached and convicted first.

Asked about it on Thursday, Trump insisted that any president “has to have immunity” or else they are going to be “totally ineffective.”

Most authorized observers aren’t shopping for that argument.

And Schiff isn’t both, writing on X that the U.S. Constitution “is not a suicide pact” and nobody has immunity for homicide.

Not even a president:

Schiff, who was a supervisor in Trump’s first impeachment trial, is at the moment working for U.S. Senate in California.

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