postman
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Not really, because sovereign immunity will still exist. But absolute presidential immunity is pure fiction.Now you're catching on. Open this door and subsequent administrations will be seeing legal problems previous ones never did.
According to Trumps lawyers, in order to prosecute an ex-president, you have to impeach and convict him of the crime, he will later be charged with.
That has to be pure B.S. because i'm sure somebody posted, what if the president starts selling pardons (bribery) to the highest bidder. Then he starts selling administrative gifts and papers (theft) on e-bay. Then he sends Vladimir Putin the technical specifications of our Ford class aircraft carriers, our LA class submarines, and the F-35 fighter (treason).
If the house impeaches him on 3 counts of treason, but the senate convicts on only two. That means he can't be prosecuted for his theft or bribery, because he was never impeached and convicted of those charges.