A Century of Presidential Indictments

Topic: Perspective

America has almost always conducted her business in a way that sets her apart from not only the dark, forbidden places of the world, but even cultural cousins and civilized western nations.  These customs extend all the way to our highest office.  Our first president declined what amounted to a kingship and established a precedent for future presidents to serve just two terms in the White House.  It wasn’t until Franklin Roosevelt, under the cover of World War II, sought and won a third and fourth term that this pursuit of power was curbed by the ratification of the 22^nd Amendment, limiting future presidents to two terms.

American politics has always been ugly, even before 1800, and accelerated with the creation of the Democrat Party and the debate over slavery in the 1820s, but even this persistent toxicity has failed to change one thing: we don’t jail, prosecute, or persecute our former presidents.  Some may disagree with this tenet at face value, but it has served as an unwritten rule of sorts to stave off a total breakdown of society for more than two centuries.

Until now.  Now, turnabout is fair play as far as this writer is concerned.

Even though the left-wing media is already preparing for Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump to be a major bellyflop with catastrophic boomerang effect, the damage is done.  Trump is having to spend valuable time and energy defending himself against something the corrupt judiciary and administrative state will seek to drag out for as long as possible, and the Republican political establishment has wasted no time in taking to the airwaves to celebrate a judicial system they’ve done nothing to constrain because it hampers the efforts of the most existential threat to the feckless GOP in their lifetimes.

While posthumous trials are rare, expensive, and generally pointless, they should be warranted in this era in which the media, political establishment, and corrupt judiciary have joined forces to go after President Trump.  While former Presidents Obama, Bush 43, Clinton, and Carter may sweat bullets, jail time is not possible for the rest of the people gracing my very ominous list, because they’ve been called to account for their deeds in a much higher court.  Without further ado, We The People need some answers now that Alvin Bragg, prodded by his corrupt financiers and global masters, decided to upend more than two centuries of American precedent.

Here comes 100 years of Presidents and their indictment-worthy deeds:

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Warren Harding (R)

1921-23

We need answers for the Teapot Dome Scandal, considered to be the most catastrophic presidential scandal in American history until Watergate, a half-century later.  Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who was bribed, leased Wyoming petroleum reserves at low rates without bidding the project out.  Harding had knowledge of the bribery occurring within his administration, and Fall became the first Presidential cabinet member to spend time in jail.

Calvin Coolidge (R)

1923-29

While Coolidge, perhaps the last “true conservative” President according to ideological diehards, gave some acknowledgment to rampant bribery occurring within Harding’s administration, he gave little attention to the Ku Klux Klan and the path of destruction they carved throughout the southern states.  Was such indifference out of a desire to deprive all Americans of equality?

Herbert Hoover (R)

1929-33

Why did Hoover send Army regulars, led by Douglas MacArthur, to disperse the Bonus Army, which gathered in Washington, D.C., to call for payment of their bonuses amid the Great Depression?  The police killed two protestors and MacArthur’s troops used military force to clear out their camp.

Franklin Roosevelt (D)

1933-45

Did Franklin Roosevelt have prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, or was it truly a tactical intelligence failure that created the opening for the attack, as we have believed for eight decades?  The ensuing Pacific War was so devasting it took the detonation of two atomic bombs to end and shoved the world into a new threat – the nuclear age.

Harry Truman (D)

1945-53

Truman pushed hard to authorize UN engagement in Korea, and once he succeeded in getting American troops committed, fired Douglas MacArthur instead of owning any of the failures of his own administration for the war’s direction.  Was this act meant to silence MacArthur from exposing a failed war plan?

Dwight Eisenhower (R)

1953-61

With the Cold War in full bloom, Ike gets a pass on foreign policy related issues.  But how about the initial “Lobbygate,” in which unacceptable levels of access were given to 1950s-era lobbyists to the White House, resulting in favorable treatment?  This precedent has arguably destroyed American politics for decades.