together, all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom thought it would be a good idea to elect guys that crime-y to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and agnew, the justice department in the early 70s had bumbled their way into putting down on paper that it was the policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the unite and that s like an important landmark moment fort nixon years, it s never a good sign that your presidency is so crime-y and forces a look at the rules whether you can a be president from in a prison cell. even i though that landmark was reached in theen nixon years, a they clarified mess on paper because of m nixon and agnew, t rule, the nuts and bolts of it never got tested at that time, never got tested by the events that surrounded the eventual downfall of nixon and agney, nixon resigned as president before beinged forced out and never cri
and the importance of that is that it means technically they never tried to charge nixon as a sitting president, nor did they ever try to charge agnew as a sitting vice president. they avoided testing that prospect with both nixon and agnew, each of them basically by the swing of their teeth. so the rules about not charging a sitting president, those rules were created, they took shape, they were formalized and put down in print during that crisis ofin criminality in the white 70s.in the early but that rule wasn t really tested at that time. that rule wasn t really tested until almost 50 years down the road, until our time in the history books, hooray for us, three years ago, 2019 when special counsel robert mueller completed the report of his investigation into russia interfering in our presidential election in 2016, to help the trump campaign. that was what volume one of
together, all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom thought it would be a good idea to elect guys that crime-y to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and agnew, the justice department in the early 70s had bumbled their way into putting down on paper that it was the policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the unite and that s like an important landmark moment fort nixon years, it s never a good sign that your presidency is so crime-y and forces a look at the rules whether you can a be president from in a prison cell. even i though that landmark was reached in theen nixon years, a they clarified mess on paper because of m nixon and agnew, t
rule, the nuts and bolts of it never got tested at that time, never got tested by the events that surrounded the eventual downfall of nixon and agney, nixon resigned as president before beinged forced out and never criminally charged while president and got a pardon as soon as he resigned so he was never criminally charged as an ex-president either so he nixon avoided testing that principle. same thing withst agnew, they tk great pains to not test it with nixon s criminal vice president, spiro agnew who was running an ex portion and bribery ring out of his office in the white house and got caught by federal prosecutors while doing so. federal charges were brought againstde him but they negotiat thisey sensitive deal where agn resigned the vice presidency immediately, right before, seconds before, he walked into thehe courtroom to formally fac those federal charges.