John Oliver has some guidance for the High court.
On HBO‘s Last Week Tonight on Sunday, Oliver noted the court’ s step recently to make a decision whether previous Head of state Donald Trump has governmental resistance versus being prosecuted on charges he disrupted the 2020 political election.
Oliver played a clip from an ABC Report in which the press reporter kept in mind that“the court [is] now taking on a monumental unanswered question: Can a former president be criminally prosecuted for actions taken while in office?”
Mused Oliver: “It’s an interesting question and real quick: Yes. Yes. A former president can be criminally prosecuted for actions taken in office. It is one of those questions to which the answer should really be obvious. Like, did Robert Durst kill those people, or which serial mascot fucks the most, or who should play the next Batman? And for the record, the answers are: absolutely, it’s not even close [Tony the Tiger], and Natasha Lyonne.”
Oliver likewise stated out that this instance was prior to the D.C. Circuit Court, Court Florence Frying pan asked a “wild hypothetical” concern of Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, that“illustrated just how absurd Trump’s position is.”
The concern: Could a head of state that bought Seal Group 6 to execute a political opponent, that was not impeached, would certainly he undergo prosecution?
Sauer’s action:“If he were impeached and convicted first.”
Said Oliver:“Wow. Only under those conditions? it really feels like the answer to, ‘Can the president kill a guy?,’ shouldn’t be, ‘No, unless half the people in Congress think the other guy had it coming.’”
On the other hand, this all indicates that there is an opportunity that the government test on the Jan. 6 charges can be postponed up until after the November governmental political election.
“And if Trump wins that election, who knows what happens?” Oliver stated. “I mean, fingers crossed, the sun explodes, but that is an outside chance.”
Oliver included:“So it seems like consequences for the insurrection could be yet another thing that Trump tries to kick down the road, ignoring it and hoping it goes away like his various debts or multiple court cases or acknowledging any of his children’s birthdays.”
He after that kept in mind a “fun fact” that Eric Trump‘s birthday happens to be Jan. 6. (Eric Trump is one of the former president’ s youngsters with his late ex-wife, Ivana Trump.).
“It’s true — and a wonderful reminder that Trump’s the only politician in D.C. during the riot who considers that to be the second worst thing to happen to him on Jan. 6,” Oliver quipped.