Allowing world leaders, like Donald Trump, to evade investigation because they're politically powerful is undemocratic, writes Rob Maguire
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he lands at Quad City International Airport in route to Iowa on March 13, 2023, in Moline, IL.Maguire is the Research Director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington , a nonpartisan watchdog organization focused on building an ethical, accountable, and open government through in-depth investigations, aggressive legal actions, and innovative policy reform.
The truth is that prosecuting powerful world leaders is something we see in democracies all the time—just not in the. Far from weakening their governments, many of these countries rank higher than the U.S. when it comes to political rights and civil liberties. Democracies young and old have held past presidents and prime ministers accountable—and come out as strong on the other side.
We can look to France as an example of how to hold former elected officials accountable. In 2021, Nicolas Sarkozy became the second former French president to go to prison when he was found guilty of corruption and illegal use of campaign funds in not one, but . During his lengthy political career, Sarkozy was viewed as a divisive politician, due to his tough-on-crime stances and his inflammatory rhetoric, referring to rioters as and discussing new policing initiatives as a chance to “cleanse” immigrant, minority neighborhoods as one would do with a Kärcher, a kind of pressure washer.
So did prosecuting Sarkozy, even so many years after the offenses took place, destroy France’s democracy? It did not.
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