#POTUS: Perilous politics of indicting a President who is also a presidential candidate . @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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#POTUS: Perilous politics of indicting a President who is also a presidential candidate . @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/nyregion/alvin-bragg-trump-investigation.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends Vistory Debating Society. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm John Bachelorette with my colleague and friend, |
| 0:04.0 | Thaddeus Macata, a recovering politician, |
| 0:06.4 | experienced in the ways of Washington. |
| 0:08.4 | So I go to Thaddeus when I've just run out of ideas |
| 0:11.9 | as to what the devil is going on. |
| 0:14.9 | Thaddeus, within these last days, former President |
| 0:18.6 | of the United States has been indicted by, |
| 0:21.1 | well, we're told the indictment. |
| 0:22.4 | We haven't read it, but we're told the indictment |
| 0:25.4 | by the District Attorney of Manhattan. |
| 0:28.1 | I won't pursue what it's for. |
| 0:29.8 | I'll just say there is no precedent for anyone |
| 0:33.4 | in writing a former president or a president |
| 0:36.1 | of the United States. |
| 0:37.0 | No precedent. |
| 0:38.0 | We're an uncharted territory. |
| 0:39.9 | And my concern, and I had a conversation |
| 0:43.2 | with Conrad Black about this, my concern is that we've |
| 0:47.6 | established something called Victor's Justice, |
| 0:51.4 | that each election cycle will be vulnerable to prosecutors |
| 0:55.6 | anywhere in America to bring charges against a major candidate |
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