As expected, Donald Trump said he is a candidate for the next presidential election, which is two years away.
As suspected, this is a tactic to stall any investigation of possible illegal activities, the theory being that a president, a former president, or a candidate for president is immune from prosecution.
That did not work when he was a resident of the White House, it did not work after he left, and it cannot work now.
No one is above the law. Not even the top law enforcement officer in the nation, current or former. Not before holding office, not while in office, not after leaving office, and not as a candidate for some future office, however high that office may be.
At best, this is yet another tactic to stall the various continuing investigations into his activities before, during and after he occupied the White House.
Will these tactics work? Sadly, some of them do but only to the extent that they delay legal and congressional proceedings. And that is because other officials are very careful about setting a precedent about prosecuting a high federal official.
And that is the main reason why he escaped two (count 'em, two) efforts to impeach and convict him while he was president. He was in fact impeached, twice, while he was president, but his Republican colleagues in the Senate were reluctant to be the first to actually convict a sitting president.
Should they have done so, which would have avoided the current conflict? That is an argument that will occupy the time and thinking of academics and politicians for decades.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world will continue to wonder if the adage, "L'etat, c'est moi" (I am the state) as uttered by the last king of France, applies to a democratically elected president of a republic.
Check that. Technically, Donald Trump was never elected president. He lost the popular vote in both campaigns, and only took office in his first attempt because he was able to persuade several states to modify their electoral vote counts, thus putting him in office.
As for qualifications, before he won the presidency in 2016, he had no (none, zero) experience in government. His opponent, however, had been a U.S. senator, ambassador to the United Nations, and decades of experience as a lawyer as well as the spouse of a governor and president who also was a trained lawyer.
Donald Trump's education amounted to bachelor's degree in business. He has refused to reveal his grade level.
All of that is by the way, however. What matters now is whether he can skillfully manage the national affairs of one of the world's wealthiest nations.
Before he gets prosecuted on a variety of charges, both criminal and civil. If he is prosecuted and convicted before the next presidential election, in November 2024, he will be ineligible to hold any office.
Don't believe me? It's in the Constitution. You could look it up.
As suspected, this is a tactic to stall any investigation of possible illegal activities, the theory being that a president, a former president, or a candidate for president is immune from prosecution.
That did not work when he was a resident of the White House, it did not work after he left, and it cannot work now.
No one is above the law. Not even the top law enforcement officer in the nation, current or former. Not before holding office, not while in office, not after leaving office, and not as a candidate for some future office, however high that office may be.
At best, this is yet another tactic to stall the various continuing investigations into his activities before, during and after he occupied the White House.
Will these tactics work? Sadly, some of them do but only to the extent that they delay legal and congressional proceedings. And that is because other officials are very careful about setting a precedent about prosecuting a high federal official.
And that is the main reason why he escaped two (count 'em, two) efforts to impeach and convict him while he was president. He was in fact impeached, twice, while he was president, but his Republican colleagues in the Senate were reluctant to be the first to actually convict a sitting president.
Should they have done so, which would have avoided the current conflict? That is an argument that will occupy the time and thinking of academics and politicians for decades.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world will continue to wonder if the adage, "L'etat, c'est moi" (I am the state) as uttered by the last king of France, applies to a democratically elected president of a republic.
Check that. Technically, Donald Trump was never elected president. He lost the popular vote in both campaigns, and only took office in his first attempt because he was able to persuade several states to modify their electoral vote counts, thus putting him in office.
As for qualifications, before he won the presidency in 2016, he had no (none, zero) experience in government. His opponent, however, had been a U.S. senator, ambassador to the United Nations, and decades of experience as a lawyer as well as the spouse of a governor and president who also was a trained lawyer.
Donald Trump's education amounted to bachelor's degree in business. He has refused to reveal his grade level.
All of that is by the way, however. What matters now is whether he can skillfully manage the national affairs of one of the world's wealthiest nations.
Before he gets prosecuted on a variety of charges, both criminal and civil. If he is prosecuted and convicted before the next presidential election, in November 2024, he will be ineligible to hold any office.
Don't believe me? It's in the Constitution. You could look it up.
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