Trump and his administration, including his children, were quick to use Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of the Mueller report as vindication from his alleged wrong-doings — with POTUS himself screaming “EXONERATED” in the face of everyone that will listen. While the exoneration of the president individually by Barr’s summary is still questionable at best, the President should take a moment to realize that his conclusion certainly may not ring true for his children and other members of his family.
David Dorsen, the Watergate prosecutor, recently sat down with Newsweek to discuss that fallout from the release of the Mueller report. Dorsen stated that he feels efforts will now be “much easier” to indict Donald Trump Jr. as well as Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner.
“While Mueller says he’s not going to recommend the indictment of Donald Trump senior for a variety of reasons, his work has made it a lot easier for prosecutors of other members of his family to put together indictments,” Dorsen told the magazine.
The former prosecutor of the major political scandal continued, “What the Mueller report has done is in effect itemized the evidence against Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, which included presumably new material, and much of that information would be applicable to Kushner and Donald Jr.”
It’s imperative to note that while the Muller probe has concluded and Attorney General Bill Barr has done his best to sweep what remains of it under the rug —Donald Trump and many members of his administration are still under investigation in New York as well as several other jurisdictions. Dorsen believes that the Southern District of New York has been provided with “a bonanza of evidence” in the Mueller report. Evidence that will be used to eventually bury not only POTUS but his family and members of his administration, as well.
So far, Trump has been able to narrowly dodge the bullet thanks to a number of precedents — most importantly that a sitting president cannot be indicted. However, that loophole doesn’t apply to his children, their spouses, or any other member of his team.
Dorsen wrapped up his interview by stating, “The Constitution does not protect a president’s children.”
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