OK. I was intrigued, despite the ALL CAPS headline and I watched the video. I had to skip forward to around the 30 minute mark to get to the "new trick" mentioned.
Sigh.
Nadler is bloviating about a new bill designed to suspend the statute of limitations on any Federal offense committed by a sitting President. The law is supposed to address a "loophole" created by DOJ policy. What the idiot Nadler and his fellow idiots in the House are (conveniently?) forgetting is that law trumps policy and no new law is needed to address policy. This is political gamesmanship, in its purest form. It won't pass the Senate so he's just trying to score points with his base.
CBP is right on two issues. The office of the President is equal to that of Congress. One does not answer to the other. Also, that this bill is a naked attempt to get at the Bad Orange Man that they hate so much. He's wrong that it would allow them to go after all previous presidents.
H.R. 2678 (congress.gov) states:
In the case of any person serving as President of the United States, the duration of that person’s tenure in office shall not be considered for purposes of any statute of limitations applicable to any Federal criminal offense committed by that person (including any offenses committed during any period of time preceding such tenure in office).
...and...
The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to any offense committed before the date of the enactment of this section, if the statute of limitations applicable to that offense had not run as of such date.
That means that Federal crimes committed by a President in office as far back as 2015 could be charged today, if the bill were to pass immediately. First, it won't pass. Second, if it did Trump would veto it. Third, there's no way Congress would be able to override the veto.
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