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When you become a leader you swear by the law to uphold your position for the people. Therefore once it becomes anything else yup they should just send you to prison.
A President is supposed to be a spoke person for the people and supposed to try benefit the country not themselves.
If such consequences were harsh you would see certain people not even want to be president, meanwhile the ones who will want to will not fear the consequences as they do not plan to commit such crime.
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Nobody is above the law. There are certain things a president can do or needs to do that would be illegal for a private citizen, but anything that is not part of those duties should be taken into account once he or she leaves office.
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Democracy is a fragile thing for most of history and still in most places on earth it does not exist because when you give someone a monopoly of force there is little to stop them form abusing it.
That means your veto (checks & balance) on his power over that force either work to prevent him from abusing such power in the first place or they won't prevent him from refusing to step down either and your screwed.
This is not a theoretical problem this happens all the time in democracies thou out history and all over the world.
So frankly the idea that you can control by "threat" a chief executive holding the cards of enforcement without the check of a veto on his use of said executive power. The same check which would have enabled you to prevent said abuse in the first place is ridiculously dangerous.
Its the kind of assumption an shortsighted idiot would make. Yet majorities in old democracies fall for it at the behest of power hungry politicans all the time simply because they are spoiled by more limited previously relatively well run systemsProsecuting a former president for crimes committed while he was president sets a very dangerous precedent. Should we then prosecute Obama for giving the orders to kill Osama bin Laden, a civilian? Or Nixon for directing hostilities in Vietnam? And what about Lincoln, for directing Union soldiers to kill their fellow countrymen? A detailed look at every Presidency would reveal something "illegal" that the President did... should we prosecute them all?
There's a reason why the Constitution... and laws... specify the only way to punish a President is via impeachment, and only the Congress can do that. Several Constitutional scholars have pointed out that the DOJ's prosecution of Trump for Jan 6, as well as various DAs prosecution for hush money and trying to change election results, is at best questionable, and at worst completely illegal.
I voted the top one and here's why:
As the president, you're going to be doing illegal things. You just are, you're not working with clean people, you're not negotiating with people who play by the rules, there's always going to be situations when you're playing a game like that which force you to take risks.
I mean, half the stuff the president does with the Cia is probably illegal.
To prosecute a former president is almost like saying "it was OK then, it's a problem now"
It opens the door for people to retaliate. What happens when a president hurts a big company to stop them from dumping waste into the drinking water, and they fund the next president who comes into office and part of their deal was to retaliate?
Because that all politics is.
If there is proof beyond reasonable doubt then conviction is the only way doesn't matter what position they held. Well it shouldn't but we have seen some heavy crimes committed by a lot of people and they get away with it. Simple as that. If you did the crime do the time. Again though has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt which is a difficult venture under normal circumstances a lot harder when it comes to elected officials given they are protected and restricted by more laws than the average person.
The “innocent until proven guilty” concept seems to elude you. Short of being god, an accomplice, or an impossibly reliable witness, you can’t know that a defendant has committed a crime. Hell, with the quality of the US “justice system”, you can’t know that they committed the crime even after they’re convicted. Ell oh ell!
That assumes crimes were actually committed. But the prosecutions clearly show they weren't, or they were things that don't get prosecuted.
But it's always hilarious to see a foreigner who doesn't understand the US legal system show he's just a propagandist.You left out the factor that said former president is running for reelection which was the very thing the left gave Trump shit for when he tried to investigate the Biden family's involvement in Burisma.
I guess it is ok when the left does it, right?
Pardoning Nixon was the WORST decision Ford made!!! Would have set a GOOD precedent!!
How about not prosecuting a sitting president because he is “too old and forgetful to be convicted by a grand jury” but not too old to actually be f*cking president?
I am all for punishing if it is a crime. But I'd like to see it applied consistently. Unfortunately, these things become political witch hunts and the media is also politicized.
Most dangerous is weaponizing the justice department to try to keep a rival political candidate from running. But if you dickheads haven't noticed, yet... every time the democrats try this shit, Trump gets even more popular.
The third choice should be Prosecuting A former president who happens to be the leading current candidate in an attempt to interfere with an election
That is the real threat to American democra y.Prosecuting a former president for fabricated crimes he never committed.
Like now.
It depends on whether their name is Donald Trump or Bill Clinton.
We already pardoned one criminal Republican president and that’s been used as precedent for the current criminal Repub.
Definitely B, everyone has to be held to account for their actions.
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It sets up the political system to be a lawfare hellhole otherwise.
I choose the 2nd option
Doesn't matter either way
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