If Joe Biden wins the election, his Justice Department will have to decide whether to investigate and prosecute President Trump. Biden so far has been cautious with the question, saying he wouldn't interfere, but that such a move may be bad for democracy.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leaves a campaign event last month in Wilmington, Del. If Biden wins the election, he may face political pressure over what to do about President Trump.Former Vice President Joe Biden leaves a campaign event last month in Wilmington, Del. If Biden wins the election, he may face political pressure over what to do about President Trump.
"I don't believe that anybody is above the law," he said,"On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward, as opposed to looking backwards." Goldsmith said most people aren't talking about how a Biden Justice Department might handle Trump but said he thinks they should be. It's never happened before, and it's a political time bomb. Bringing a criminal case against a former president could widen the divide in the country.
Democrats impeached Trump in a process that ran from 2019 into this year over the Ukraine affair, but Republicans used their majority in the Senate to protect the president. Trump, when he ran in 2016, called his opponent, Hillary Clinton,"crooked" and ate it up when crowds called for Clinton to be incarcerated. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn joined the audience in cheers onstage four years ago at the Republican National Convention.
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