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No, that's why there's nowhere in any legal code in the US that "running for office makes you immune to criminal charges."

These are two completely distinct systems. By design.

I remember that you are a foreigner (from some corrupt third world county if I recall?) with a limited understanding of American legal history and political culture, but the idea that voters simply get to decide who is a criminal or not is flatly contrary to America's culture.





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