https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/politics/trump-lawyers-memo-mueller-subpoena.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
According to an explanatory interview given on Sunday by Rudi Giuliani to Huffington Post, the president cannot be indicted for anything while he is in office, not even murder. And even if he were to be indicted, he could apparently immediately pardon himelf, according to the ever dependable Giuliani speaking earlier to ABC and NBC news. - “It’s a hypothetical point” he conceded.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-says-president-trump-couldnt-even-be-indicted-for-murder?ref=home
According to this take on the US constitution, president Trump coud not be indicted for muder even if he shot James Comey - an apparent nod to Trump’s infamous boast that he could walk out on Fifth Avenue and shoot someone in public without putting a dent in his popularity ratings.
Other constitutional experts are not so certain. Norm Eisen, the White House ethics lawyer under President Barack Obama, rebutted Giuliani’s claim: “A president could not be prosecuted for murder? Really?” he said. “It is one of many absurd positions that follow from their argument. It is self-evidently wrong.”
Senior Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff had this to say
“The President’s legal arguments would render whole sections of the Constitution moot, and allow a president to engage in any form of criminality and obstruct an investigation into his own wrongdoing. Nobody is above the law. Not this President. Not any president.”
Meanwhile, a new report issued on Friday by Berkley California attorney Alexander Stern summarises the opinions of eight leading law professors across the country that disposes of the DOJ argument that an indictment would “impermissibly distract a president from his duties”, by pointing out that an indictment could be issued under seal without his knowledge.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/bombshell-report-reveals-trump-indicted-seal-without-knowledge/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
As well as eliminating the potential distractions that a public indictment would create, a sealed indictment could also solve any statute of limitations issues that might arise from deferring the execution of an indictment until after the president left office.