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Trumps attorneys believe he can order seal team 6 to kill his political rivals subject only to the legislature
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Schatz said: "I do not think that the American public and even the American political community is sufficiently alarmed...I just want to emphasize one essential point, now they are lawyering this up.
"There was a point where he was individually acting in an irresponsible way and essentially engaging in stochastic terrorism but it is much different when the official position of Trump's lawyers is going to be that he could order a murder of his political rivals using Seal Team 6 and that would be up to the legislature to determine whether or not it was criminal."
Appearing visibly frustrated Schatz continued: "It's a new Rubicon we've passed and I think the American public has to wake up to the fact that look, it's very exhausting to follow Trump, certainly if you're not a political person...but American democracy is at stake and this is a new turn for him where he's taking the official position that he gets to do whatever he wants."
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