So if you break the law to win the Presidency, you can then use the office to avoid prosecution?

[Bleacher Creature]

How is that the DOJ's policy? And isn't the moral of that story that you should break every law possible to win the White House, just so long as you win?

None of that makes any sense whatsoever.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Yup. Logic is dead.

[imaginary girl]

2. Like robbing a bank

Isn't it a bit like robbing a bank and using the stolen money to avoid prosecution? I agree that it doesn't make sense.

[JenniferJuniper]

14. That actually makes more sense.

At least the bank robber would be charged.

[lame54]

17. If the prez robs that bank in his first year and gets reelected....

He will beat the statute of limitations

[PoliticAverse]

3. If only there were some way for one of the other branches of government to remove a President...

that broke the law. So say, if a President engaged in a conspiracy to cover up some illegal actions that got them elected they could be removed from office (and then possibly prosecuted).[1]

And the DOJ is a unit of the executive branch under the President so you can't really rely on it to be prosecuting a President that broke the law.

[1] http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment

[onecaliberal]

4. Yes apparently that is s the case.

[triron]

11. +1000

Especially when one party and elements of DOJ is part of it and the other party is impotent.

[dogman]

6. GOP only.

[sagesnow]

7. Sensible Modus Operandi for the GOP IMHOP. n/t

[DeSmet]

8. Equally strange...

is the while being investigated by a special counsel, the president doesn't have to recuse himself.

[Scarsdale]

9. That rule only applies

to (R)'s silly. They love borderline mentally challenged candidates, who are easily manipulated. tRump is not running the country, McConnell is.

[triron]

12. Nope, not McConnell. Putin.

[LiberalFighter]

10. It is DOJ policy because the President is their boss.

[zentrum]

13. Sociopathy

...is the new normal.

We've got a national infection.

[Iggo]

15. Yes.

[tymorial]

16. And yet people go to prison for years over pot

America.