Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Donald Trump Hearing: Former President’s Attorney Argues He’s Immune From Prosecution — Perhaps Even If He Orders Assassination Of Political Rival
deadline.comFormer President Donald Trump was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to attend a hearing on whether he is immune from prosecution for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
As his attorney John Sauer argued before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, media coverage quickly zeroed in on an exchange he had over a series of hypotheticals.
Judge Florence Pan at one point told him, “Could a president order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached.
Would he be subject to criminal prosecution?” “If he were impeached and convicted first,” Sauer said. “So you answer is, no,” Pan said. “My answer is a qualified yes,” Sauer said. “There’s a political process that would have to occur under our infrastructure, under our Constitution, which require impeachment and conviction by the Senate in these exceptional cases.” Pan, though, continued to press him on the point, arguing that he was essentially saying that no, a president could not be prosecuted, while Sauer argued that it was a “qualified yes,” in that he would first have to be impeached and convicted in Congress.
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