Anyone who calls themselves a lawyer who would say that should not be a lawyer — let’s start with that. If you shoot someone, that’s a crime, and no one is above the law. He would be arrested, period.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, criticizing arguments given before the Second Circuit by Donald Trump’s lawyer, William Consovoy, where he claimed the president could not be prosecuted even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue. “If anybody shoots someone, they get arrested. I don’t care if they’re the president of the United States or anybody else,” de Blasio said. “If you shoot someone, you should get arrested, and we would arrest him.”
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