Politician and a Cfiminal

The President has been harping on the notion the Democrats are picking on him because he won the 2016 election and they cannot beat him in 2020 without a witch hunt hoax scam impeachment inquiry. His claims to executive privilege over everything material and conversational between himself and staff, among staff, himself and foreign leaders, etc. etc. etc. are almost as sacred to him as spousal privilege that keep a wife from being compelled to testify against her husband.

There have been long standing allegations of misconduct and criminality that go back decades. He and his entire brand have been subject to over 3500 lawsuits for one claim or another usually involving failure to pay contractors for the work they do. There have been multiple instances of states investigating and planning to indict him for tax fraud, money laundering, improper payments from campaign funds, fraudulent conversion of charitable and campaign funds to personal. Some allegations go as far as to assert he has lied to banks and other investors to obtain loans for his alleged billion-dollar empire.

Now when he is the Chief Executive of the United States he expects that all those shady transactions will somehow be wiped away because of a DOJ presumption "a sitting President cannot be investigated or indicted." There are four categories of crime to be considered here: Crimes committed prior to being elected, crimes committed to become elected, crimes committed to remain in office and crimes which have been ongoing from before the election of 2016 until the present. Within those four categories are crimes related to political office and those which have little or no relation to the Presidency.

Truly if Donald Trump had not sought political office and had not been successful, a sizable portion of the list of offenses would not be crimes. Paying prostitutes to not speak publicly about sexual encounters is not a crime unless it is by a politician seeking to be elected or reelected. Receiving money and "anything of value" from foreign governments in the form of purchasing and renting lodging space at his properties would not be the accepting of emoluments as prohibited in the US Constitution. Most of what the House of Representatives is investigating into his and his agents dealings with Ukraine would not even be possible.

The fact that there is a huge number of pending indictments now that he is President is not specifically related to his dubious ascension to the Oval Office. Much of it has merely matured from simple allegation to Grand Jury proceedings complete with subpoenas and the battle of wits.  After all, he is both the President and a man of dubious character who is attempting to rule the country by decree while flouting all Legislative and Judicial oversight. That makes him a necessary target for every avenue and vector of legal process.

Even if the Prosecutors who are indicting him and are politically motivated, the fact remains he has acted contrary to existing laws and is being called to face the charges.