With Biden Win, Can Trump be Indicted by SDNY Prosecutors During Lame Duck Period to Test OLC Memo?

[UCmeNdc]

The Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion memo that a sitting criminal president can not be indicted while in office. This horrific, unsupportable legal opinion has shielded Donal Trump from accountability for his crimes for the past four years. This video presents an argument in favor of why prosecutors from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) should consider testing the OLC memo by charging Trump for the campaign finance crimes he committed together with Michael Cohen to settle the legal issue of whether a sitting criminal president can or can not be indicted while in office.

Also, all federal crimes are considered offense against the United States - in essence, offenses against all of the American people. Accordingly, the crimes committed by Trump and his criminal associates are, in a very real sense, crimes committed against Trump's own supporters. This is why holding Trump and company accountable for their crimes is in the interest of ALL Americans and should not serve to further divide the country.

[soothsayer]

1. Why not wait 74 days?

[Xipe Totec]

2. The OLC opinion is always quoted backward.

What OLC said was that there was no impediment to indicting the VP.

That has been interpreted to mean that there is an impediment to indicting the President, but no such language exists.

[marylandblue]

3. The OLC wrote those opinions to protect the President in power and it worked.

We need a new independent counsel law with explicit power of indictment. To prevent past abuses, scope has to be limited to probable cause for political crimes committed in office.

[regnaD kciN]

4. No...it will just end up being decided by the current SCOTUS...

Better wait...and, if Trump doesn’t pardon himself, file charges immediately after noon on 1/20/21. And I’m hoping the NY DA is already preparing charges for that moment, too.

[WyattKansas]

5. Go completely dark, but keep collecting and summarizing evidence.

Do not tip him off or force his hand and let him think he is getting away with it all... Hopefully he will be too concerned about bounties being placed on his head by Putin for failing to repay his loans and lining up ample protection for himself and family at taxpayer expense.

As soon as President Biden is sworn in, slam the hammer down on him on all fronts.