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Even if the order were carried out, a president can be impeached and removed, then tried in an Article 3 court. An impeachable offense is whatever the House deems impeachable. Trump was impeached twice on bogus charges. Didn’t matter. Impeachment is not subject to appeal. For better or for worse, the legislative’s branch impeachment and removal authority is the ultimate check and balance. No one is arguing presidents are immune, for any and all crimes. That’s a typical liberal red-herring. The Trump defense team is merely schooling the moron Obama, Clinton and Bush judges that the Constitution spells out what the process shall be to hold a lawless president accountable.

“Even if the order were carried out, a president can be impeached and removed, then tried in an Article 3 court.”

But if that were the only remedy, then a rogue president plus 34 partisan hacks in the Senate could do anything. The president could, literally, get away with murder.

There should certainly be immunity for official acts. For example, IIRC, some of Trump’s executive orders were overturned in court for having violated some statute. Even if the EO is held unlawful, Trump couldn’t be prosecuted for that.

The criminal case in New York doesn’t fall within official immunity. The alleged crime occurred partly before Trump was inaugurated. Even as to things he did as President, nothing related to Stormy Daniels was part of his official duties. His best argument is that adultery is not a crime, hush-money payments are not a crime, and the indictment concerns only a bookkeeping dispute about how the payments were treated.

Points taken about impeachment. The poster was talking about assassination by a Seal team. Unless their code of conduct and the USMJ has changed its laws, no Seal I've ever known would murder a civilian nor assassinate a sitting present.

When temp. stationed at Coronado years back, I got to know some BUD/S trainees and one Trident SEAL. Their standards and values were of the upmost intergrity, honor, patriotism, loyalty, dedication and respect to their superiors.

Unlike the regular army grunt, sailor, or AF mech, I highly doubt the Spec Op guys and Command have succumbed to the woke PC crap. Other than some Rangers, that's why there are no female SEALs, Army Delta, or Marine Force Recon.

For an informative article on Spec Ops units of all branches:
https://www.awg.army.mil/AWG-Contributions/AWG-Recruiting/Article-View/Article/1809184/the-most-elite-special-operations-forces-in-the-us/

Can someone please convert the URL above to a clickable link? Getting old and forget how. It covers all the Spec Op units and some you're not aware of.