According to new reports where four sources close to Donald Trump have spoken to reporters.
The former president wants to run for president again because he believes that might be the
only way to protect himself from the onslaught of both criminal probes and the civil lawsuits
that he is currently facing.
Now, the first report of course, came out from rolling stone, where again, they spoke
to four different people who corroborated this story saying that yes, Donald Trump is
out there telling us basically on a regular basis that he wants to run because he understands
that being president comes with a lot of legal protections.
But the real question is, does it, I mean, I know, I know, okay.
We, we had the justice department, the Mueller report, Mueller came out and said, Hey, listen,
you know, you can't, you can't charge a sitting president, but that's actually not a rule.
And I think that's something that a lot of people seem to forget.
There is no set rule or law here in the United States that says that you cannot charge a
former president or, or a current president, excuse me, with a crime.
That's not a law in the United States.
It's a guideline that the justice department put in place to protect Richard Nixon from
being prosecuted.
It's in a memo saying, we're we're, we don't do this.
We shouldn't do this.
Basically.
It doesn't say you're legally not allowed to do it.
It just says, we're, we're gonna act like we can't do it.
I hope everybody understands that again, there's no rule in the United States that says you
cannot charge a sitting president.
We're basing that off a DOJ that was trying to protect Richard Nixon at the time.
So yes, the DOJ absolutely could 100% charge a sitting president with a crime problem.
Of course, is that a DOJ under a second?
Trump administration definitely wouldn't do that because Donald Trump would get to pick
the attorney general.
He would get to a point, a whole lot of people to the DOJ, basically any investigation happening
into Trump would be killed on site.
So that would be the legal protection.
Okay.
Not because you can't charge a sitting president, but because Donald Trump would have control
over that law enforcement agency.
So that would likely protect him from criminal probes or at least criminal probes from the
DOJ itself.
Wouldn't really do anything about what's happening in Georgia with Fannie Willis, who wouldn't
do anything with what's happening in New York with Latisha James.
And it certainly wouldn't do anything to protect him from the massive amount of civil lawsuits
that he is still currently facing.
I mean, uh, bill Clinton in the nineties, uh, uh, uh, got hit by Paula
Jones lawsuit and it was determined then that, yeah, you, you can Sue a sitting president.
That is a thing that can in fact happen.
And we saw plenty of people Sue Donald Trump while he was president.
But of course, most of those lawsuits, uh, the ones that were not dropped got pushed
until after he left office, those are still pending.
And I think last count there's what 22 of them, maybe 21, cuz I know summer Zervos did
in fact drop her lawsuit against Donald Trump, but the Egen Carol lawsuit, the one that could
prove that he sexually assaulted her in a department store in the nineties, uh, that
one is still pending and that obviously could be a major, major blow to Donald Trump.
If he does have to go to trial and provide a DNA sample, which again could prove that
the former president in the nineties sexually assaulted a woman in a department store dressing
room.
So is there some truth to Donald Trump getting legal protection if he becomes president again?
Absolutely, but not for the reasons that most people think it's only because he would have
control over the agencies that would be investigating him for the most part as for the other criminal
investigations happening.
If Donald Trump becomes president before they conclude, that would be a matter that might
have to go all the way to the Supreme court.
And that is Donald Trump's ACE in the whole right.
Cuz three of those nine justices were put there by Trump.
You've got a solid six, three conservative majority.
You think they're gonna allow Donald Trump to be prosecuted while he is president of
the United States?
I highly doubt it.
So just to recap, there's nothing preventing the criminal probes from moving forward.
Even if Donald Trump is president, it just makes it much less likely that he will get
indicted while he's in office.