Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday suggested that former President Donald Trump’s legal arguments that he is immune from prosecution is legitimate.
The longtime senator was asked during a CBS News interview on Sunday on whether he stands by a 2021 comment that President Trump could be prosecuted because, according to the statement, “the president’s conduct is subject to the law of the land.”
“It depends on what the conduct is,” Mr. Graham said in response.
President Trump was charged with four counts by special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year, charging him with working to illegally overturn the 2020 election. The former president’s lawyers have argued that President Trump was the commander-in-chief at the time and was acting in his capacity as president, meaning he’s immune from prosecution….
