Opinion | After Trump, America Needs Accountability for His Corruption – The New York Times

Opinion | After Trump, America Needs Accountability for His Corruption (Published 2020)

Restoring the rule of law is not the same as “lock her up.”

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/opinion/trump-corruption.html?ref=oembed

Last week, NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Joe Biden whether, if elected, he could envision Donald Trump being prosecuted. Biden replied that the prosecution of a former president would be a “very, very unusual thing” and probably “not very good for democracy.” The former vice president said he would not stand in the way if the Justice Department wanted to bring a case, but when Garcia-Navarro pressed him, he suggested she was trying to bait him into a version of Trump’s threat against his 2016 opponent: “Lock her up.”