1 Good Reason For Trump To Want His Old Job Back: Staying Out Of Prison

[UCmeNdc]

WASHINGTON — While power and ego are typically enough to drive most would-be presidents, Donald Trump could soon have a far more compelling motive to want his old job back: staying out of prison.

With a grand jury in Atlanta convening next month to focus on Trump’s attempted coercion of Georgia officials and federal prosecutors in Washington appearing to build a conspiracy case around the attempt to block the election certification on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump may have more reason than ever to seek the protection against prosecution enjoyed by an incumbent president.

“He views the office as a shield to protect himself,” said George Conway, an expert on the laws governing presidential exposure to legal challenges. He said that seeking the presidency to avoid jail, while brazen for most, for Trump would be the next logical step. “It’s sort of like a Ponzi scheme. You’ve got to keep going, otherwise it will collapse.”

Which means that a man who made history by openly soliciting and accepting help from a foreign adversary to win power, then a second time by trying to overthrow the American republic in order retain that power, could do so yet again by running for the presidency while under an active criminal prosecution.

“No qualification in the Constitution says that you’ve got to be unindicted,” said John Ryder, a former Republican National Committee member well versed in presidential nominating rules and laws.

Should Trump win, he would suddenly benefit from rules and precedent designed to let the chief executive focus on the weighty responsibilities of the office.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-avoiding-prison_n_625096c5e4b052d2bd54ba70

[SoonerPride]

1. Being former president already does that too

The DOJ will never indict him.

[applegrove]

2. I'm guessing he did pardon his aides for Jan6 in his last two weeks to

keep them silent on Jan 6 and threatened with potential heat in any investigation.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. And who's gonna' put him in prison?

Truly - how much longer will this question be asked? We keep seeing "THIS IS THE STRAW........" - and it never is.

Mueller - Impeachment I - Impeachment II...............

Again, what will it take?

[SoCalDavidS]

4. He's Not Going To Prison

And he's not worried about it. If he runs, it will be so he can line his pockets, and Fuck Up America some more.

[Trueblue1968]

5. LOCK HIM UP NOW. let him TRY to run for Pres from the slammer. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[Novara]

6. can Congress pass a law that the indicted - or hopefully convicted - can't run for office

or would that be a Constitutional amendment?

[spooky3]

7. Quite a few DUers have said this previously. Nt

[kacekwl]

8. He knows now what he can

get away with. So if he's back again he knows he doesn't have to do anything. He'll spend his time golfing and grifting on a much larger scale. He can now arrest his critics have his enemies killed and finally be the billionaire he claimed to be. It may sound like I'm kidding but it will be way worse than I describe.