Obama didn't allow for any punishment for him for the "sake of the country" EDIT: so no one was prosescuted in spite of his admin knowing the intel was suspect.
Reagan: Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo at the time. In violation of the Boland Amendment, senior officials of the Reagan administration continued to secretly arm and train the Contras and provide arms to Iran, an operation they called "the Enterprise". Reagan paid NO PRICE for that because the Reagan appointed commission found no proof that HE knew about it... But REALLY? He knew NOTHING? If so, then his mental state was such that he was clueless due to the onset of Alzheimers and his cabinet should have removed him.
G.H.W. Bush: In the end (of the Reagan commission to investigate Iran/Contra), several dozen administration officials were indicted, including then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Eleven convictions resulted, some of which were vacated on appeal. Dozens of The rest of those indicted or convicted were all pardoned in the final days of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, who had been vice president at the time of the affair. Former Independent Counsel Walsh noted that, in issuing the pardons, Bush appeared to have been preempting being implicated himself by evidence that came to light during the Weinberger trial and noted that there was a pattern of "deception and obstruction" by Bush, Weinberger, and other senior Reagan administration officials.
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W.J. Clinton: His lying under oath about his affairs, while understandable, was not punished aside of being impeached only in the House. EDIT: IOW, he wasn't criminally prosecuted after leaving office. However, his law license was rescinded, which is more than previous and subsequent presidents' suffered for their duplicity. Almost unfair given that his crimes were totally personal rather than related to his actual job as POTUS.
G.W. Bush: He waged war in Iraq based on KNOWN LIES.
tRUMP: Need I say more?
Notice that the ONLY POTUS who violated the law who actually lost anything significant was CLINTON who lost his law license on top of an essentially embarrassing impeachment.
So, YEAH, a VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE that began with Nixon.
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