Again, this seems incredibly unlikely. The President would be immune, but no one else would be. Even if the President might be immune for ordering the FBI director to murder a political rival, the FBI director would not be immune for agreeing to murder the political rival.

Let’s take it down a notch, say, from murder to, oh I don’t know, “political assassination” by digging through medical dirt to destroy your opponent. Or maybe fraudulently assigning actions to others to make them appear corrupt or incompetent. Or perhaps soliciting campaign funds in return for favors. Or maybe laundering funds from foreign donors. Or…

Let’s pretend. I’m writing a novel. I’ll create some fictional characters named Haldeman and Erlichman to do the bidding of a manifestly corrupt President, and they will do whatever he asks knowing that they will be criminally liable but he will not.

Nah, I guess that couldn’t happen, because no rational person would undertake criminal activities for someone who could not be prosecuted, but they could. Well that settles that.

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