Trump still unlikely to face criminal charges
But the ex-president must be held accountable for Jan 6, 2021 and mustn’t be allowed to return to power. And only the American voters have the power to ensure he won’t be re-elected in November 2024.
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SOME historians and legal scholars speculate that former US President Richard Nixon would have faced criminal charges and perhaps would have ended up spending time in jail if his successor at the White House, President Gerald Ford, had not pardoned him in 1974 for any crimes that he may have committed during the Watergate scandal.
The US Senate was ready to impeach President Nixon for impeding the investigation into the burglary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) through the massive cover-up White House officials had orchestrated, a decision that would have forced his resignation. But Nixon resigned before the Senate had the opportunity to vote to impeach and convict him.
Court documents also show that before he was pardoned, a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, was prepared to indict President Nixon on four criminal counts -- bribery, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and obstruction of criminal charges. If convicted on those charges, the former president could have faced jail time.
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