Basically: I committed a crime while trying to stay in office illegally, but you can’t hold me to account because I’m running for office.

Pretty much “I’m a big-deal Republican, so you can’t apply the normal rules to me, even though others have run for President from jail”

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    9 months ago

    Trump’s lawyers warned that if a president can be prosecuted for actions taken while in office “such prosecutions will recur and become increasingly common, ushering in destructive cycles of recrimination,” adding that “Without immunity from criminal prosecution, the Presidency as we know it will cease to exist.”

    If Presidents commit crimes in office, they should be held accountable. And if the Presidency ceases to exist because of the justice of accountability, then let the office perish in injustice.