I would think if a sitting Governor can be indicted, the President can also be.

[shraby]

That's what V. Presidents and Lt. Governors are for. To take over in case something happens to the head man.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Indictment wouldn't make someone not be President, only impeachment...

(or using 25th amendment) can do that.

[nil desperandum]

2. During

the Clinton presidency this was a matter debated between many substantial legal minds.

It was interesting to note that there were professors of law on each side the equation. Some who suggested there was no immunity from indictment and others who read Article 3 to infer impeachment as the sole remedy which could then be followed by indictment of the impeached and removed(by the senate trial) president.

A few of the professors quoted during the Clinton years also suggested such immunity applied to any Federal official where impeachment was required to dismiss them from their office and duties.

In what will no doubt be a piece of delicious irony Trump's lawyers will probably find themselves arguing the exact same points as Bill Clintons lawyers did some twenty years ago.

[beachbum bob]

3. no federal statute exempts a president from being indicted, tried and sent to prison, its only a

DOJ "policy". Fuck that shit. A crook is a crook.

[k8conant]

4. If he's indicted, then convicted and sent to prison...

then wouldn't the 25th amendment come into play?

[beachbum bob]

5. he would have been impeached and removed from office well before his first day in prison

[k8conant]

6. Probably so...

but these days who knows?

[UTUSN]

7. Or even just the saying, Nobody is above the law