Trump US’ first ‘convicted felon’ president

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With President-elect Donald Trump’s second tenure, the US faces the presidency of a convicted felon for the first time ever, former Watergate prosecutor and former US assistant attorney Nick Akerman says.    #USA #Trump

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00:00OK, and just lastly, I mean, obviously, this is all completely uncharted territory for

00:05the United States, this level of scrutiny, legal scrutiny of a former president who's

00:11about to become another sitting president for the second time. I mean, does this now

00:15draw a line under it all for the next four years at any rate, all of these legal cases

00:21surrounding Donald Trump?

00:22Well, there's no question about it. It's not just these legal cases that are criminal.

00:27It's also the civil cases that he's appealing. I think he's going to find that in most all

00:32of those, the courts are going to affirm the lower court's judgments. He's got the Gene

00:38Carroll case. He's got the fraud case that was brought by the attorney general in New

00:44York. All of these things are still going to be percolating over the next four years.

00:51And it definitely is going to lead some people to second guess whether or not they should

00:57have voted for Trump in the first place. I will just have to see what happens. But

01:01this really is uncharted territory. It's never happened before in this country. It's the

01:07first time we've ever had a convicted felon assume the office of presidency.

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