"One of the president's top selling points during the campaign was that as a man of the people, he was going to make sure the elites would be treated exactly like everybody else — that's what Trump said, especially when it came to the law," Trevor Noah said on Monday's Daily Show, showing clips. "Unlike 'Crooked Hillary' and 'Black Barack' Obama, Trump did not think anyone was above the law, including himself." Then Robert Mueller came calling.
Now, Trump and his lawyers are arguing that the president can't, by definition, obstruct justice, and if he could, he can't be charged with any crime, and even if he were, he has absolute power to pardon himself — "essentially, that the president is above the law," Noah said. "Which makes sense. I mean, we all remember when the founders were like, 'You know what America needs? A king!'" He said he understands the legal argument, "but I do think it's a little weird that of all the examples they could have picked, they went with murdering James Comey."
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