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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWATCH: Biden Says He Wouldn't Stand In The Way Of A Trump Prosecution
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899375561/biden-says-he-wouldnt-stand-in-the-way-of-a-trump-prosecutionJoe Biden says that he believes prosecuting a former president would be a "very unusual thing and probably not very ... good for democracy," but he would not stand in the way of a future Justice Department pursuing criminal charges against President Trump after he leaves office.
The comments from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee came during a virtual interview Tuesday with members from the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
"Look, the Justice Department is not the president's private law firm. The attorney general is not the president's private lawyer. I will not interfere with the Justice Department's judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law," Biden told NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Trump has been connected with alleged illegal activity by his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen and investigators working for former special counsel Robert Mueller. What isn't clear is whether federal authorities are investigating the president or whether prosecutors might take action against Trump if he no longer enjoyed the privileges that protect him from being indicted as a sitting president.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Response to SheltieLover (Reply #1)
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This MUST happen! They ALL must be held to the highest standards of REAL justice. IDGAF how much $ they have or what their title is, or has been. And, as civil servants, they should be held to HIGHER standards of accountability and the sentences should be much stiffer -- no early release, no "sentence" in a posh country club, no "home monitoring."
If this does not happen, voters will see this as being complicit.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Reinstate the wealth tax! Our infrastructure is crumbling! Trickle UP econ is what we need to empower THE PEOPLE - the everyday people that make this country work.
The traitors also need to be stripped of their wealth - let them PAY BACK all that they stole while in office and then some!
LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Anything less than FULL prosecution of ALL involved is unacceptable and would just continue to encourage others.
Grins
(7,231 posts)Because Ford let Nixon get a clean getaway his pardon screwed the nation to this day. It paved the way to Iran-contra and the crimes of the Reagan and Bush administrations. A terrible precedent! Justice was denied.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)No more double standard; one set of laws for them and another for everyone else.
They should all twist in the wind -- literally -- and publicly.