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LiberalFighter

(50,928 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:50 AM Aug 2018

There is nothing in Article II of the Constitution

that exempts the President from being prosecuted and convicted. If they were there would had been additional powers granted to the President.

Keep in mind that, if the President had more absolute power, the Founders would had made Article I all about the Executive instead of Article II.

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