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So either we impeach him, which could happen, but it might not, or we do what he would do in this situation. We negotiate. We make a deal. And I know this is going to sound nuts, but I have an idea. So hear me out on this. I think this could solve all our problems. We’re all going to have to be on board with this.

Instead of president we make Donald Trump king. Okay? We make him the first king of America. Think about it. England has a queen. She lives in a palace. Everyone makes a big deal when she shows up. She has no power at all. In the morning they put a crown on her head, she stands there and waves, she goes back to bed. That’s it. If the queen were to walk out on her balcony and open her shirt, nothing over there would change. The queen could be completely bonkers, it would make no difference at all. She’d still be queen, it would still be fine.

That’s what we need to do with Donald Trump. We need to set him up in a castle, maybe in Florida. Lead him to the top. And then lock the door to that castle forever. Everyone can call him your highness. Maybe we give him a scepter that he can hold. He can sit there watching ‘Fox & Friends,’ maybe chip golf balls out of the window of his tower.

There’s no way he turns that deal down, if we tell him he’s going to be the king. We’ve got to get creative here. Because enough is enough. Desperate times call for desperate measures. And I’m asking you, the people who supported Donald Trump, to step in and help for the good of this country.

Mike Pence is ready. He’s boring. He’s relatively sane. He looks like a neighbor you might borrow a lawnmower from. Let’s get him in there before it’s too late. Let’s make America Great Britain again.

Under our Constitution, every person charged with a crime has a presumption of innocence. A defendant can only be convicted after being found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on the basis of the evidence presented at trial.

The Supreme Court has held that if adverse pre-trial publicity makes it impossible for an accused to be judged on the basis of the evidence, then the accused cannot be found guilty, no matter his actual guilt.

Writing for the Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes held over a century ago that our Constitution requires "that the conclusions to be reached will be induced only by evidence and argument in open court, and not by any outside influence, whether of private talk or public print."

When the President of the United States declares on the biggest stage possible that someone is "a murderer" and "you can call it terrorism," it makes it more difficult for a trial judge to find unbiased jurors.

I expect Fields' attorney will move to prevent any trial from ever taking place on the basis of overwhelming pretrial publicity that has tainted the jury pool — and will rely heavily on the President's public pronouncement of Fields' guilt. It is impossible to know now whether Fields will be able to elude trial. A trial judge may hold that she has found an unbiased jury, not infected by President Trump's pronouncement.

One thing is for certain, President Trump would have been wise not to open this potential escape hatch for Fields.