The history of Presidents who (almost) got indicted
Time|April 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
DONALD TRUMP COULD MAKE HISTORY ONCE again—this time as the first former U.S. President ever to be criminally indicted. If it happens, it’s apt to be by the Manhattan grand jury probing his alleged hush-money payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford, says she and Trump had an affair; Trump denies this.
OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
The history of Presidents who (almost) got indicted

“Like all things with Trump, it’s unprecedented,” says Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Ulysses S. Grant was the first President to be arrested, for speeding on a horse and buggy in 1872. But the Trump case would go down as one of the biggest political scandals in American history—even if the charges relate to the seemingly mundane offense of bookkeeping fraud. Criminal history, as it pertains to U.S. Presidents, is pretty brief.

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