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- Donald Trump's legal team offered stunning hypotheticals to defend Trump's controversial claims.
- The former president has claimed he has total immunity to criminal charges related to his acts as president.
- Legal experts have rejected this view, arguing it would give future presidents almost imperial power.
Former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Tuesday issued a blistering declaration to the Supreme Court about Trump's controversial assertion of sweeping immunity to criminal prosecution.
In particular, Trump's legal team claimed that if the high court were to find that former presidents do not hold "absolute immunity for criminal prosecution for official acts" then future presidents could be effectively blackmailed.