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But those sorts of compromises are going to be really around this idea I suspect of to

what extent can the President be accountable after they leave the White House. While the

President is in the White House, I'm pretty sure that at least for those areas where

the President needs to be free to do his duties and that's a lot of his time when he's

in the presidency, you're not going to get a state to actually hold them in a prison

self-regud.

I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast November 2nd, 2023. A few weeks ago,

a organization that works in the democracy protection space asked my colleague Scott Anderson

and me to come over and give them a little talk about what would happen if Donald Trump

both got convicted and got elected. We thought that was a pretty interesting set of questions

so we prepared a little presentation on the subject. We went over and briefed them and

then we were walking back and we said to ourselves, we should really turn this into a podcast

because it's pretty interesting and so we did. There's a YouTube version of this with

a little PowerPoint presentation but this version, we're going to try not to make reference

to that. We're just going to have a conversation about what happens when a President's never

happened before but what happens if a President gets indicted and then gets elected and how

does the system respond? How does it respond? If it's a federal case, how does it respond?

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