Posted on 04/03/2023 9:23:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has made history so many times.
The first president without government or military experience. The first to be impeached twice. The first to aggressively challenge the certification of his successor.
Now, he adds another: Even as he hopes to return to the White House in 2025, he is the first former president to be indicted.
The latest line crossed by Trump challenges again the aura of the American presidency, nurtured in the infallibility of George Washington but made human over and over, through scandals born of greed and the abuse of power, corruption and naivete, sex and lies about sex.
Trump is hardly the first president, in or out of office, to face legal trouble.
In 1974, Richard Nixon may well have avoided criminal charges on obstruction of justice or bribery, related to the Watergate scandal, only because President Gerald Ford pardoned him just weeks after Nixon resigned the presidency. Bill Clinton’s law license in his native Arkansas was suspended for five years after he reached a deal with prosecutors in 2001, at the end of his second term, over allegations that he lied under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
U.S. Grant was actually fined for speeding.
"By Any Means Necessary"
If Biden survived to the end of his term, he’ll be the second to be indicted, and for REAL felonies.
Donald Trump should be the first president to use the indictment to deliver a campaign speech, right after the indictment.
He’ll have massive number of media audience, with TV and radio and internet social media and newspapers/magazines, and and an international audience.
So, right after he the arraignment, he should have a long speech prepared for delivery to that biggest audience ever.. Democrats will have fits and regrets, because, they will have been duped and used for Trump’s campaign.
“I am surprised they talked about Clinton.”
Gotta read Victor Davis Hanson’s latest column.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/02/indict-one-and-all/
Cute, this is the a-holes at AP trying to minimize this outrages perversion of the legal system.
This AP piece is just propaganda.
Its not really “legal trouble” he’s facing.
Everyone knows the charges against Trump are bogus and politically motivated.
This is nothing but a revenge fueled vendetta against the man who dared to challenge the entrenched and privileged Deep State. It’s a blatant attempt to keep him from running again.
To call this legal matter is preposterous.
“Bill Clinton’s law license in his native Arkansas was suspended for five years after he reached a deal with prosecutors in 2001, at the end of his second term, over allegations that he lied under oath about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.”
Loosely translated, because Clinton is a Democrat, he got a slap on the wrist for committing perjury (not “alleged”). He also got away with financial corruption, rape, assault, suborning perjury and probably murder.
Then his wife . . .
A two hour campaign event on the heels of the bogus “indictment” would be nice.
Trump should bring a ham sandwich with him for effect.
I like the way you think.
Bill is passed his use by date. Hillary is still on the shelf.
AP still sucks. One little Clinton mention doesn’t redeem them from bias. The AP function as butt boys for white liberal ‘elite’ newspaper editors.
The very biased and Leftwing Associated Press tries to legitimize the outrageous and unprecedented political persecution of President Trump.
They may try to slap some kind of gag order on him.
But he could still wave the ham sandwich in the air. ;)
AP = Always Political
I recon they crossed the Rubicon a long time ago. It’s all bananas now.
Slap on the wrist. Clinton wasn’t going to go “Matlock” and return to Arkansas to practice law.
Should’ve been indicted but he was above the law.
Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon because he wanted to heal the nation. #Democrats aren’t interested in healing the nation or unifying it, but in destroying their political opponents so they can achieve absolute power, the only thing they actually care about. #TheLeftHatesYou
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.