Are Presidents not allowed to investigate past Admins?

Irish said:
Be honest with that last part. They DON'T like Trump.
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I'm sure they don't like him as a person because he's horrible, but they like his policies. Why else do Republicans defend him when he's objectively terrible?

So you are opposed to elections deciding who leads what?
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No, but I expect presidents to have to obey the law. If they break the law, they should be held accountable like anyone else.
 
StoneByStone said:
I disagree that people are constantly trying to take him down, but let's just assume that's true. If the phone call wasn't incriminating, why try to hide it? Had Trump believed what he did was ok, he wouldn't care about it getting leaked



You hold a meeting, get your party to write up a bill, get congress to vote on it.
TBH, the president probably could investigate a past admin's crimes without congress, and nobody would kick up much of a fuss about it. I wouldn't see it as a problem, as long as it wasn't obviously for personal gain.



What exactly is the scandal there? Yeah, the company probably just wanted to say the veep's son worked for them. It was nepotism. But how is that corruption? We're talking about a private company here, not a position in the Ukrainian government.



But this isn't happening because they don't like Trump. He very obviously broke the rules here.
The point of having laws is to keep people from doing things that harm society. If our attitude is that the voters will get rid of a corrupt president, then the president is basically free to break all the laws he wants until he's not president anymore.
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Boo fucking hoo
 
Irish said:
Not necessarily. But if you think the investigation is unjust, why would you cooperate?
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You could prove they are just investigating for political reasons and rally the people in back of you. Trump cannot do that because he is guilty. Hillary answered every subpoena and testified under oath. I think that Trump should do the same thing. He is doing what a guilty person would do. Hillary did what an innocent person would.
 
One thing that I heard is that they avoid it like the plague because they don't want the US to look like some third world country where they toss everybody in jail after a coup.

Though, actually showing that nobody is above the law would go a long way towards fixing some of the frickin' corruption.
 
floridafan said:
Trump had 3 years to investigate the Bidens , but nothing happened until Joe became a Presidential candidate. You are trying to use the Hillary playbook once again, but it won't work
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So all one has to to to avoid prosecution is to run for office?
 
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