President Trump’s lawyers made bizarre legal arguments in a memo leaked over the weekend. But the memorandum by President Trump’s lawyers that the New York Times published Saturday startled even us. We often have argued about whether a subject is innocent under the law — but never about whether a subject is above it entirely, as Trump’s lawyers contend. There is no legal authority for this audacious position to sidestep presidential testimony, and the lawyers’ letter cites none. But — like so much else in the lawyers’ letter — that prompts the question of what the president knew and intended.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2018 10:00 UTC