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Ted Lieu: “There is no sentence in the U.S. Constitution that says the sitting President of the United States cannot be indicted…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2019
There is no sentence in the U.S. Constitution that says the sitting President of the United States cannot be indicted, correct?
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Ted Lieu
Democratic · California

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Ted Lieu questions the existence of a constitutional clause protecting the President from indictment.

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