Gabriel Lenz was quoted in The Los Angeles Times:
According to many legal and political scholars and the Justice Department itself, there are different rules for sitting U.S. presidents, including that they cannot be criminally prosecuted while in office.
Gabriel Lenz, a political science professor at UC Berkeley, said there is a flip side, in that Trump has had political success in suggesting to supporters that hisindictments are proof of a corrupt system that is out to get him.
“The indictments just play into Trump’s narrative that the Democrats are using the government unfairly to go against their leader,” Lenz said. “That just will increase Republicans’ tolerance for Trump’s own backsliding on democracy.”
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