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10/31/20 7:01 PM

#357033 RE: DesertDrifter #357032

For sure. "I fucked a president" would be worth rep rap in a few jails. It's all good dreaming of it as long as we know it's highly unlikely to ever occur.

Losing Could Expose Trump to Prosecution for Any Number of Crimes

Former presidents normally don’t go to jail, but few have committed so many obvious crimes unrelated to their duties in office.

Jon Schwarz October 18 2020, 11:00 p.m.

Even if President Donald Trump loses on November 3, it’s hard to imagine that he’ll ever be convicted of any crime, much less serve time in prison.

That’s because, first and foremost, no former U.S. president has ever seen the inside of a cell — and not because all presidents have faithfully followed the law. Presidents accumulate huge favors owed, favors that they cash in, figuratively and literally, when they become former presidents. On the modest end of the spectrum, 20 wealthy friends of Ronald Reagan bought a mansion in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, for him and Nancy to live in when he left office. More significantly, ex-presidents receive political protection from their allies, as when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for anything whatsoever he’d done in office.

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Presidents accumulate huge favors owed, favors that they cash in, when they become former presidents.
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And beyond anything concrete that a president does for the factions that back him, those factions also strenuously oppose any consequences for their president’s actions for reasons of basic class solidarity. If an ex-president can face consequences, that would suggest that people one step down the power ladder could too. And the people at the top of U.S. society see consequences like Leona Helmsley saw taxes: They’re for the little people.

That said, stranger things than the prosecution of Trump have happened: for instance, Trump being elected president in the first place.

Trump is more vulnerable to prosecution than other presidents because he’s engaged in so many potential nontraditional presidential crimes. With the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush committed what the Nuremberg trials referred to as “the supreme international crime” of initiating a war of aggression. But there was never any chance that he’d be punished for this, because the entire U.S. power structure agrees that American presidents have the right to do it. Same for conducting thousands of drone strikes or torturing people around the globe. By contrast, Trump has engaged in many comparatively small, shabby, possible criminal activities outside of his presidential duties.

More good material - https://theintercept.com/2020/10/18/trump-election-crimes-prosecution/

Never know though. Times, situations and people change. If any president deserves jail from malfeasance of a lifetime it's Trump.