Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump
by commandlinefan on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:04PM
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> There's a host of crimes to pick from
The only reasonable conclusion to draw here is that the evidence of those crimes is even weaker than this (already pretty weak) charge.
A more reasonable conclusion is that there's incredible resistance to prosecuting former presidents. He's the first, and he's not the first president who has committed a crime.
Are (ex-)presidents above the law?
The entire impossibility of prosecuting Trump is weird to me. There's a host of crimes to pick from, from using/withholding already approved support for Ukraine to bribe/blackmail Zelensky for personal gain (dirt on a political opponent), to pressuring people to violate election laws, to instigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, to keeping hundreds of highly classified documents in his basement and lying about it when he's requested to return them.
Lots of people have gone to prison much quicker for a fraction of this. So why is it so hard to prosecute a president or former president? It really feels like he is above the law, and lots of people want presidents to be above the law, apparently.