{"id":1956418,"date":"2023-06-25T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-legal-troubles-of-past-presidents-that-may-have-led-to-indictments\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T07:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T11:23:29","slug":"the-legal-troubles-of-past-presidents-that-may-have-led-to-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-legal-troubles-of-past-presidents-that-may-have-led-to-indictments\/","title":{"rendered":"Past presidents&#8217; legal issues that could have resulted in indictments."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-legal-troubles-of-past-presidents-that-may-have-led-to-indictments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Presidential Indictments: Trump and Beyond<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump made history in April and June as the first former president to be indicted at both the state and federal levels. However, he is not the first executive to come face to face with investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is now indicted in Manhattan on charges related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payments<\/a> during the 2016 campaign and federally indicted for allegedly violating the Espionage Act when he retained hundreds of classified documents. He has decried the historic indictments as a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; and claimed that no other president besides him had ever faced such injustice.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Manages Tense Relations with China as COVID-19 Issues Reemerge<\/h3>\n<p>Several past presidents have come close \u2014 or might have come close \u2014 to facing off with the U.S. judicial system before Trump did. Below are some past presidents that have had their own run-ins with misconduct and federal investigations.<\/p>\n<h3>Richard Nixon<\/h3>\n<p>Richard Nixon served from 1969 until 1974 as the 37th president. After Trump, he is the president most known for his biggest scandal: Watergate.<\/p>\n<p>Watergate involved several criminal elements, including burglaries, illegal wiretaps, and other crimes relating to Nixon&#8217;s 1972 reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon faced a Department of Justice investigation but did not face an indictment, nor was he ever federally charged. However, in 2018, the National Archives released a set of documents called the &#8220;Watergate Road Map&#8221; that included a would-be indictment against Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>It showed a series of charges drawn up against Nixon, including bribery, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and obstruction of a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of Watergate, Nixon faced impeachment but instead chose to resign. Forty government officials were indicted or jailed. Seven of Nixon&#8217;s aides were charged with conspiracy, and six were charged with obstruction of justice, but none were charged with bribery.<\/p>\n<h3>Bill Clinton<\/h3>\n<p>Bill Clinton served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd president. His scandal, while not criminal in nature, still led to accusations of obstructing justice.<\/p>\n<p>In its second term, Clinton&#8217;s presidency was overshadowed by an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern working in 1998. Special counsel Ken Starr was appointed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">federal appeals court<\/a> to look into Clinton&#8217;s affair with Lewinsky in the fall of 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Clinton was accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-spent-25-years-in-prison-for-a-crime-he-didnt-commit-retired-police-officers-were-just-charged-with-lying\/\" title=\"He Spent 25 Years In Prison For A Crime He Didn\u2019t Commit. Retired Police Officers Were Just Charged With Lying.\">giving false testimony<\/a> to a grand jury (perjury) and obstruction of justice. The House approved two articles of impeachment, one for each charge, based upon his false representations during the investigation. Clinton was found not guilty in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton drew special counsel attention at the beginning of his presidency after the DOJ opened an investigation into Whitewater, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-legal-troubles-of-past-presidents-that-may-have-led-to-indictments\/\" title=\"Past presidents' legal issues that could have resulted in indictments.\">real estate deal tied<\/a> to a savings-and-loan failure in Arkansas. Clinton served as Arkansas&#8217;s governor from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1982 to 1992 before becoming president.<\/p>\n<p>Starr was assigned to the Whitewater investigation. When Lewinsky was secretly recorded by the FBI discussing her affair with Clinton, Starr&#8217;s investigation was expanded to look into whether the former president had lied under oath \u2014 something Clinton eventually admitted to. He was never indicted or charged with any crime.<\/p>\n<h3>Vietnam War Presidents<\/h3>\n<p>Presidents Nixon, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and John F. Kennedy have all, to some degree, been under scrutiny for their role in the U.S. government&#8217;s actions during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Their alleged war crimes surfaced after Daniel Ellsberg released top secret documents to the press, including the New York Times and Washington Post, now known as the Pentagon Papers in 1972. The papers were part of a Department of Defense study on U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.<\/p>\n<p>The papers, among several details, showed that the presidents misled the public on the details and outcomes of conflicts dating back to World War II and the Cold War. The public mainly focused on the revelation that the U.S. government knew the war was unwinnable but did not stop escalating its involvement by sending more troops or increasing the budget.<\/p>\n<p>The presidents were never held responsible overseas, nor were they federally indicted or prosecuted in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>However, the papers affected Nixon the most, as he was facing reelection in 1972, and the information revealed to the public led directly to the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump created a historic precedent by being indicted at both state and federal levels in April and June. 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