According to too many Republicans, indictments against former presidents are limited to 'third world' countries. As stevebenen writes, this gets reality backward.
insistedIf rhetoric like this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. A few months ago, as the former president was indicted the first time, plenty of Republicans pushed similar rhetoric. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, for example, told NBC News, “You know, the countries that indict former presidents that we see around the world, we usually don’t have a great deal of respect for them.” Around the same time, Rep.
, in reference to charging a former president, “This type of stuff only occurs in third world authoritarian nations.”Stable democracies that take the rule of law seriously hold criminal suspects accountable — even if the defendants are wealthy, even if they’re politically powerful, even if they served in government at the highest levels. In fact, on the international stage, this has happened in recent years with some regularity.
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