Pointgod wrote:Trump needs to run for a second term. It’s the only thing keeping him from serving jail time. His only hope is to run out the statute of limitations on his crimes.
I'm not so sure that's true. The fact that he won is probably enough. I'm not convinced the Democrats will be interested in chasing him once he's out of office. They're more interested in chasing him in-office provided they can find a way to actually do it, which they can't. Chase him out of office and basically every president ever is going to wind up prosecuted once they leave office. The Republicans will go after Obama and even Hillary even though she didn't win. And the Supreme Court is already extremely politicized. This would make it much, much worse.
I've been saying this since before Trump won the nomination and nobody seemed to realized the implications of it. The president doesn't actually have immunity from prosecution as is the case in some other countries but he essentially does regardless and there is sort of an uneasy political truce that basically makes them largely immune from prosecution outside of the presidency. Nate admitted as much at the time, too, though he wasn't willing to say it in so many words but the reality is that because there is always going to be a massive following that doesn't believe in prosecution, basically anything goes in politics. The only way Trump is vulnerable is if like 90% of the population turns against him. The senate will stay Republican controlled which means impeachment won't happen and once he's out of office this is going to be more about letting the past go than it is some soul-searching time to figure out how this could have happened. I'm guessing that's where Trump was a touch nervous about actually going to war and was probably advised against it by his political strategists despite pushes from the war hawks around him. A war risks an unnecessary situation where people might view him differently and he doesn't want that.