No immunity for Trump after 'corruptly' trying to stay in office: Reagan WH lawyer

According to a former White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan, there is no way that the Supreme Court should extend presidential immunity protections to Donald Trump after his power play to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In a column for the Wall Street Journal, Peter J. Wallison, currently a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, expressed his disgust for the former president's actions that led up to the Jan. 6 insurrection and questioned why the courts would look the other way.

"Since the Constitution was ratified, the American people have assumed that each president would accept defeat and leave office voluntarily—and all of them have," until Trump came along, he wrote.

Citing the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia's already concluding Trump wasn’t acting “within the outer perimeter,” he suggested the Supreme Court should follow suit.

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"Actions taken in an unofficial, private capacity cannot qualify for official-act immunity,” that same court ruled which led Wallinson to add, "The Supreme Court could ultimately hold otherwise, but the case is strong that Mr. Trump should be denied immunity."

"There can hardly be a more serious crime for a president than to use the power of his office corruptly to prevent his successor from becoming president through a valid election," he added.

You can read his whole piece here.