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In reply to the discussion: Prison, for Trump, is out of the question. [View all]sop
(10,146 posts)for committing crimes while in office. I know of no law or custom exempting a President from criminal liability for crimes committed while in (or out of) office, after he's no longer POTUS.
Prosecuting a president for political crimes - like starting a war based on lies, causing thousands of deaths from mishandling a national health crisis, or simply being a divisive, racist demagogue - is not what we're talking about here. Actual crimes - like tax evasion, public corruption, campaign finance violations, money laundering, and others - must be prosecuted, even if it's a president.
Nixon wasn't prosecuted because Ford pardoned him. Unless Trump manages to have Pence pardon him on the way out, and only for federal crimes, if this POS can be shown to have broken the law, he has to be prosecuted, and jailed if need be. That goes for his family as well.