Former Watergate Prosecutor: Trump Should Have Been Charged Upon Exiting Office

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A former Watergate prosecutor has said that former President Donald Trump — who is currently the subject of numerous state and federal investigations — should have been issued criminal charges the moment he left the White House.

Former President Donald Trump boards his airplane at Palm Beach International Airport on February 22, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Florida.

“I think we need to hold the former president responsible for all of his crimes,” Jill Wine-Banks, who is also a legal commentator for, citing Trump’s actions surrounding the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack and his attempts to use the Department of Justice to promote false claims of election fraud. Wine-Banks — who cross-examined Richard Nixon’s personal secretary during the Watergate investigation — also referenced Trump “trying to have fake electors” disrupt the Electoral College, his “trying to pressure [then-Vice President] Mike Pence” to go along with that scheme, and, hundreds marked as classified, to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida upon leaving the White House.

The alleged crimes that took place in the middle of Trump’s presidency should also be considered, Wine-Banks said.the former federal prosecutor said , “because he was named in the indictment of [former Trump lawyer] Michael Cohen, as the ‘Person Number One.’ It was said that the crime was committed for the benefit of ‘Person Number One.’ And that was clearly him.”

 

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