Throughout the course of its near 300 year history, Donald trump is one of the most controversial
presidents the United States has ever had.
And that’s saying a lot, at the time of this recording, donald trump has only been
US president for a year.
We had George W Bush who will forever be remembered for the catastrophic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Richard Nixon who will always be associated with the Watergate scandal and being the only
US president to ever resign from office.
Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan, who allowed for the spread of slavery.
Franklin Pierce, the president who is credited with setting the stage for the America Civil
war by repealing a ban on slavery.
And who could forget Andrew Johnson, who restored the southern states after the civil war and
gave amnesty to confederates who went on to oppress newly freed slaves.
Again, this is a new age and slavery is no longer an issue, so its difficult to put trump
in the same category as other bad US presidents, but he is controversial nevertheless.
Several polls have shown that 40 percent of American voters would support impeaching trump,
and according to a Washington post poll from November 2017, 49 percent of Americans believe
trump committed a crime.
Some Experts have claimed that US president Donald trump will end up in jail.
Some, like Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell says trump will be in jail within a year.
Others say trump will never go to jail, and that its next to impossible to imprison a
president.
Before we get into this video, I would like to state that no US president has ever been
removed from office following the impeachment program, and its unlikely trump will be the
first.
Its even more unlikely that Donald trump would go to jail after being found guilty following
an impeachment.
But let’s imagine, at least for the next few minutes, the hypothetical circumstances
where Donald trump could ended up in jail, and the aftermath.
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Alright, lets get into it.
According to article 2 of the constitution, Impeachable offenses include the following,
treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanours.
But it also states that upon being impeached for those crimes, the president, vice president
and all civil officers of the united states, shall be removed from office on impeachement.
The only consequence mentioned is removal from office.
For a president to go to jail, he, firstly needs to be impeached, thrown out of office
and then answer for his crimes in a court of law.
He then needs to be found guilty in that court of law.
History has shown that a sitting president is essentially immune from ordinary criminal
prosecution - state or federal.
That might not be the case on paper, no us citizen is supposed to be above the law, not
even the president.
But the minute he is no longer in office, Donald trump would be subject to ordinary
criminal prosecution like any other US citizen.
Impeachment requires a single majority vote in the House of Representatives and a two
thirds majority vote in the senate.
Republicans dominate both the House of Representatives and the senate.
For both the House of reps and the senate to vote to impeach donald trump, he would
have had to commit a very terrible crime indeed.
Lets explore, shall we?
Perhaps trump could be labelled as an unindicted co conspirator, where he was caught lying
to federal officials.
This is what happened to Richard Nixon in 1974 during the Watergate scandal.
This could end up being a possibility, because according to the Washington post, donald trump
is reported to lie 5.5 times a day on average through twitter and other platforms.
But it isn’t a crime to lie to the American public, and its not a crime to lie to the
media either.
It is however a crime to lie to federal officials, but trump and his legal team would never let
this happen.
His team incorporates written responses to avoid it.
Perhaps the crime that would end up putting donald trump in jail, with little chance of
being pardoned, would be treason.
Treason is a term often thrown around in politics, but whether or not a crime was actually treason
is another matter entirely.
The US code of law defines treason as follows.
Whoever, owing allegiance to the united states, levies war against them or adheres to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the united states or elsewhere, is guilty
of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and
fined under this title, but not less than 10 thousand dollars and shall be incapable
of holding office under the united states.
The us constitution also says something similar.
Basically, trump would have to be found guilty of helping enemies of the united states as
well as levying war against the united states.
There have only been about 30 treason trials in the united states since 1789.
Mildred Gillars and Robert Best, were convicted of treason for working with the Nazis to help
push their propaganda during world war 2.
And Ethel and Julius Roseberg were convicted of passing us atomic secrets to the soviet
union in 1953.
Perhaps trump would be exposed and found guilty of colluding with Russia.
According to law professor john Shattuck, trump and his team denying cyber attacks,
as well as attempting to hamper investigations, is like giving aid and comfort to an enemy
of the united states.
If Donald Trump went to jail for treason, his trial would be the trial of the century,
possibly one of the most famous trials to ever take place.
It would be televised from every angle; it would dominate the news for years.
Impeachment and then a criminal trial could take many, many years.
Yes, donald trump has been a polarizing figure, there are a lot of people who want trump to
go to jail, But there are also many people who do not want him to go to jail because
he also has done many good things for the united states.
His tax reform has helped the US economy substantially, hes relieved the fear that recession and unemployment
are inevitable.
He also might end up being the only US president to get North Korea to agree to denuclearization.
Despite what some may think or want, A sitting president ending up in jail is not a good
thing.
It would cause a lot of terrible feelings among the American public, it would deepen
the divide even more.
Trust in the election system would lessen.
Trust in the presidential system would lessen.
Donald Trump would become a disgrace.
Donald Trump, the treasonous 45th, they would call him.
Books would be written about him, tv and films about the trial and his life would be made.
He would essentially become infamous, a larger than life figure.
More larger than life than he is right now.
He would become the first and only US president to ever go to jail.
The title would likely be too much for him to handle.
Lets not forget that donald trump is not young anymore.
At the time of this recording, he is 71 years old.
The trial would take an emotional and physical tole on him.
By the time it finished, he would be a very old man, too old to serve much of a prison
sentence.
He would likely die before he had the chance to serve the full thing.
In conclusion, I will reiterate this, It would be incredibly difficult to jail a president,
no matter how badly the populace wants it.
George W Bush was an outright war criminal and a fraud.
But he escaped the consequences.
Donald trump could also escape prosecution if Vice president Pence, who would become
sitting president, pardoned him.
When Nixon stepped down following the Watergate scandal, he was pardoned by his Vice president,
Gerald ford.
Ford granted Nixon quote a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed
against the United States while president.
Yes, if donald trump committed treason, it would be a lot harder for him to get off.
But donald trump being charged with levying war against the united states, that sounds
pretty unlikely.
He might tweet a lot of crazy shit but he wouldn’t commit treason.
Donald trump, by all accounts, love the American people.
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