George Conway, a conservative lawyer who has prominently opposed former President Donald Trump amid many of the former executive’s controversies, posted a rebuttal on Truth Social this Monday to claims from the former president of “presidential immunity.” Trump was sharing an argument made to that effect from a guest on Fox News.
In short, Conway asserted that Trump’s claims of such immunity, which he took from that guest on Fox, were not supported by the law and facts at hand. Conway insisted that Trump was not acting within the conventionally defined bounds of his role as president when carrying out some of the allegedly criminal acts that have formed the basis of his multiple criminal cases. Trump has, at times, directly admitted to some of the disputed acts, like harboring documents from his time in office at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago and trying to stop Joe Biden from taking office. Trump, who still wrongly asserts that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential race despite rebuttals to which he’s known to have been exposed, claims he was not acting illegally.
“You see, when you did all the bad things you did, you weren’t acting within what the Supreme Court calls “the outer perimeter” of your official duties and responsibilities as president,” Conway said, adding: “And not only were you not acting within the Outer Perimeter of Your Official Responsibilities, you were doing the OPPOSITE of what those Very Important Responsibilities required.” Conway was involved in a past legal dispute over related matters of a president’s legal vulnerability when the subject was Bill Clinton. Conway used the sporadic capitalization in these comments as a reference to Trump’s tendency towards something similar.
Trump has yet to make his expected surrender to local authorities in Georgia for processing in the criminal case there. It was the fourth that he faced, which this time relates to an allegedly criminal conspiracy to target Georgia’s results from the 2020 elections. The case, which includes 19 defendants, ranges from the effort to assemble functionally sham electors for Trump to the targeting of state officials and the harassment faced by local election workers in Georgia.
