So, on what rationale does trump NOT get arrested the day after his inauguration?

[Goodheart]

Remember that Michael Cohen went to jail for breaking Federal election laws? Remember that "Individual-1" was a co-conspirator?

I imagine that trump's defense would be that he never instructed Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels. But what objective person would ever believe that?

[C_U_L8R]

1. He's not in the country?

[lagomorph777]

5. Exactly. We don't have an extradition treaty with Russia.

[exboyfil]

2. Has a handy-dandy federal pardon

from himself and possibly Pence.

State crimes on the other hand.

[beachbumbob]

3. the problem we face with state crimes is a conservtive supreme court could rule that

state crime charges that parallel federal crimes that are "pardoned" are in essence double jeopardy and can not be prosecuted at state level. This is a real possibility

[exboyfil]

4. Yes

I think that is how it will ultimately play out.

[Coleman]

6. In 2019 the court ruled in favor of separate sovereigns

Which means federal charges and state charges do not risk double jeopardy. The court ruled 7-2, with RBG and Gorsuch dissenting, that separate sovereigns does not violate double jeopardy.

[dawg]

7. What if they rule that way but NY still refuses to let him go?

Who's going to enforce their ruling?

This is how the Republicans are operating now. What if we started acting that way too?

[Hotler]

8. Joe said we're playing nice and we need to move on.

Just like with Bush/Cheney.

[uponit7771]

9. I have not read or heard him say anything like this he said he let the doj handle it

[AmericanCanuck]

10. The only reason is for the country's image

We cannot be seen as jailing political leaders so the federal government should lay off.

On the other hand, state crimes are a different issue and godspeed if NY files an indictment and arrests Trumpty Dumpty.