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If Trump doesn't get convicted of a crime by the end of his run, he'd go down as the most scrutinized President of all time, by far, and therefore probably the one with the cleanest record.
My understanding is that the prevailing legal opinion is that a sitting president cannot be indicted and the evidence of campaign finance crimes will (or are likely to be) brought against Trump after he leaves office. WR lawyers please correct me if I'm wrong there.
I'm not sure I follow your premise here either. Seems to me that clean presidents are less scrutinized because they're clean and the vetting process was thorough. Criminals tend to draw more scrutiny when they're in the spotlight, right? The problem with Trump is that the GOP allowed him to high jack the party and ultimately beat their preferred candidates in primaries. If they were a strong party and had a spine they would have crushed Trump when they had the chance. I bring this up because it was not always the case and it's not the case with Democrats, so the comparisons aren't good.
I would hope that every US president afterwards is held to the same standard, by the media and U.S. institutions. Probably not, though.
I do agree with this part. The US badly needs reform not only for presidents but for political offices in general.
Is your premise that every president is as corrupt as Trump but they're just turning the screws harder on him? What would Bush have gone to jail for if they just looked harder?Bush would definitely be in jail if the media and institutions had been onto him, as they have been all over Trump.