WTH is Going On with the Trump Indictment? John Yoo Weighs In

When the Founders conceived the U.S. Constitution, they were
under the assumption that the head of state in America would be
guided by honor – that an impeachment would virtually never be
necessary, that the shame of the prospect would force the accused
to step down from office. That model of leadership with integrity
is absent in today’s political climate. In former president
Donald Trump’s second, and more serious indictment, he has been
charged with 37 counts relating to his retention of classified
documents. Yes, Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden should also be
prosecuted – but that does not exonerate Trump. But it is also
true that we have never prosecuted Presidents before: not
Clinton, not Nixon, not LBJ, not even Jefferson Davis. The DOJ is
crossing a line - not a constitutional line, but a “bright line”
of institutional practice, as our guest calls it, and that is
enormously significant. Where did statesmanship go? Just where
will this Trump indictment lead the nation?


John Yoo is a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas and the former head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the
Justice Department. He is the Emmanuel Heller Professor of Law at
the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He is also a
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover
Institution. His most recent book is Defender in Chief: Trump’s
Fight for Presidential Power.


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