“Joe Biden says that he believes prosecuting a former president would be a ‘very unusual thing and probably not very … good for democracy,’ but he would not stand in the way of a future Justice Department pursuing criminal charges against President Trump after he leaves office” NPR reports.
“The comments from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee came during a virtual interview Tuesday with members from the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists. ‘Look, the Justice Department is not the president’s private law firm. The attorney general is not the president’s private lawyer. I will not interfere with the Justice Department’s judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law,’ Biden told NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro. Trump has been connected with alleged illegal activity by his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen and investigators working for former special counsel Robert Mueller. What isn’t clear is whether federal authorities are investigating the president or whether prosecutors might take action against Trump if he no longer enjoyed the privileges that protect him from being indicted as a sitting president.”