“It would be wrong to think about Trump on the same spectrum as predecessors. you have to look on his presidency in a different way — seeing his possibly criminal conduct not as a byproduct of a political agenda but a central feature of his tenure”
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“In this light, Trump’s potential criminality becomes a kind of throughline, the dots that connect his life as a businessman to his entry into politics and then onward across his four years as president.”

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“One potentially illegal act led Trump to the next: from law-bending moves as a businessman, to questionable campaign-finance, to willingness to interfere with investigations into his conduct, to public corruption and the seemingly illegal abuse of powers to remain in office”

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“The stakes of prosecuting Donald Trump may be high; but so are the costs of not prosecuting him, which would send a dangerous message, one that transcends even the presidency, about the country’s commitment to the rule of law.”

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