Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday presidents should not be immune from criminal prosecution for actions taken in office, as the Supreme Court“Obviously, I don’t think that,” McConnell told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker when asked about the assertion, which former President“But it’s not up to me to make that decision,” he continued. “The president clearly needs some kind of immunity, or he’d be in court all the time. So we’ll see how the Supreme Court deals with it.
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