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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

Trump's "get out of jail free" card

Former U.S. President Donald Trump exits the stage after speaking during a rally hosted by the former president at the Delaware County Fairgrounds on April 23, 2022 in Delaware, Ohio. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

If there's one thing former president Donald Trump knows very well, it's the fact that the Department of Justice has a hard and fast policy against indicting a sitting president. He heard it hundreds of times during the Mueller investigation from every TV lawyer in the country as well as his own, including the White House counsel. And even though the Mueller Report laid out several possible counts of obstruction of justice, clearly intended to be triggered once Trump was out of office, nothing ever happened. It's pretty clear that Trump understands the presidency to be a "get-out-of-jail-free" card. Right now he probably could use one.

On Tuesday, the special grand jury convened by the Fulton County Georgia's District Attorney's office issued a number of subpoenas to Trump's Kracken election team to testify about the Trump campaign's post-election pressure to overturn the election in 2020. Lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchel, Jacki Pick Deason and Kenneth Chesbro were called along with Senator Lindsey Graham.

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