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Adamantish
Adamantish
01:41
I feel like these - admittedly interesting - discussions of technical details are missing the point behind the question: namely, why should the person we would like to hold to the highest standard be the one person immune from criminal prosecution? Other countries don't have such difficulties.

It seems the President is legally allowed any crime, even to murder someone for fun on tv. This doesn't sound like the world's most advanced democracy.
 
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Bryan Krause
Bryan Krause
21:42
@Adamantish That policy comes from a Justice Department opinion; that is, the Executive Branch has decided it won't prosecute it's head. It's a bit odd, but essentially comes from the fact that the president is in fact the head of the executive branch, the branch that accuses people of criminal offenses.
The only reason it seems that the president is legally allowed any crime is because the mechanism for removing the president from the position at the head of the executive branch has been very difficult because the president's political allies are preventing that removal.

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