Former Watergate Counsel Argues Trump Can Be Indicted

[Nevernose]

3. SCOTUSs decision is all that matters

And we can safely assume where they would stand.

Otherwise, I don’t see why — based on SCOTUS’s own precedent that the Executive can be civilly sued for actions occurring before the presidency — that a president couldn’t be indicted and tried. As long as the SENTENCE didn’t happen unt afterward.

In reality, even with a friendly court, this would be a terrible precedent to set. Can you imagine how many “crimes” a black president would have committed by now?

(There are statutes and precedents, by the way, for criminally prosecuting a sitting executive, although not an American president)