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List of American Federal Politicians convicted of Crimes [1]

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Date: 2023-08-04

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The Indictments of Defendant Trump are only “unprecedented” in one way — it’s the first time* that a former president committed such blatant crimes, while in office, that he left the Dept of Justice little recourse, but to pursue justice against him. (*Discounting Nixon, who first resigned.)

It is Trump’s actions that are “unprecedented” — not the fact that he is being held to account for those suspected crimes.

Indeed, there is a long, long history of federal politicians being held to account in America. They were convicted for their crimes. Many of them served time. In prison. Their political status DID NOT protect them from being convicted.

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The following is a truncated listing of such convictions, starting with year 1900 convictions. There were numerous of Federal politicians convictions prior to this, but who’s got the time or the inclination to wade through all those.

Data is from wikipedia.org, but this was also rehosted at wikiwand.com for enhanced readability.



The following compressed listing focusing on Criminals and their Sentences. The Administration headers and some background crime details are excluded, to get to the TL;DR version of this relatively common occurrence. Click one of the above links to get the rest of the story, if you want all the details.

List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes

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The exemption from criminal prosecution is for sitting presidents. Once they are out of office, all bets are offs. The other serving politicians, and public officials, have no such federal exemption, as the above list clearly shows.

Bottom-line: Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.

Even for ex-billionaire ex-presidents.

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