07-20-2022, 02:18 PM
Trump wants to run for office while under legal investigation with the hope that juries will be influenced to regard these investigations as politically motivated. And if he became president again, Trump says, he would put a stop to such "witch hunts" against him by the Attorney General that he appoints to head the Justice Department.
I remember two things. First, President Nixon was hounded from the presidency by his own Party after it was revealed that he told the Justice Department to squash the Watergate investigation. So now Trump wants to be Nixon and get away with it this time, and this time he has a Party which would enable him to do it.
Second, Eugene Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while in prison in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He received 919,799 votes (3.4 percent), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 percent, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in United States history. So the fact is that it is possible to run for president while in jail. WHY NOT impose this hampering condition on him, then?
I remember two things. First, President Nixon was hounded from the presidency by his own Party after it was revealed that he told the Justice Department to squash the Watergate investigation. So now Trump wants to be Nixon and get away with it this time, and this time he has a Party which would enable him to do it.
Second, Eugene Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while in prison in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He received 919,799 votes (3.4 percent), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 percent, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in United States history. So the fact is that it is possible to run for president while in jail. WHY NOT impose this hampering condition on him, then?