Former President Donald Trump emerged from a federal appeals court hearing on Tuesday and offered up his take on how proceedings regarding whether he should be covered by presidential immunity for post-2020 election actions.

Trump faces federal charges for allegations following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building and state-level charges in Fulton County, Ga., for allegedly trying to overturn that state’s results, but his legal team has argued that he should be protected under presidential immunity for those actions.

Initially, Trump said he was “confident” that his argument would prevail, then added:

“But if this didn’t work out — if I wasn’t given immunity, then other presidents that we talked about today, President Obama with the drone strikes, which were really bad. They were mistakes. They were terrible mistakes. You really can’t put a president in that position. I think most people understand it and we feel very confident that eventually, hopefully at this level but eventually we will win. A president has to have immunity — and the other thing I did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong,” Trump said.

The former president’s attorney, John Lauro, also weighed in.

“We can’t have a country where every four years there is a cycle of political recrimination where one administration attacks a prior administration when, in fact, that candidate is leading in the polls and will be the next president of the United States. As our legal team, as our appellate team made clear, it would be a disaster for our country,” he said.

“That would be a direct attack on democracy, and that cannot happen. What was very significant today, I’m sure you all caught it, is the special counsel conceded that if it was President Obama who was being prosecuted for a drone strike, then they would have to consider immunity. But when it is not, when it’s President Trump, then they are taking the position that there is no immunity for presidential acts that were required when a president is carrying out his job responsibilities,” Lauro added.

“If we adopt what the special counsel wants, if we adopt what President Biden wants, then we open the Pandora’s box to political prosecution, after political prosecution, after political prosecution,” he noted further. “In fact, Joe Biden could be prosecuted for trying to stop this man from becoming the next president of the United States. We don’t need political prosecutions, we need political process.”