Former President Donald Trump has an “absurd” new plan to expand the rights of American police, even as he rages against those investigating him, legal experts told The New York Times Thursday. Trump’s new proposal would “indemnify” on-duty police officers, essentially shielding them from misconduct lawsuits, despite already high immunity standards that make legal cases against officers hard to win, Michael Gold reported. Legal experts told Gold the proposal doesn’t make much sense. “The idea that officers need indemnification is frankly absurd, because they already have it,” said Benjamin Car…