World leaders who faced criminal charges 

True, I've never understood this reasoning at all. Why would I give a single damn about a politician being investigated or charged with crimes?

Maybe, I think the problem that would arise is the hyper targeting of individuals opposite before elections to influence them. Such as making up a dossier before a presidential election, pretending it is real, and then everyone ignoring it's falsehood after.

I think the worry is that bad actors might abuse the power and just use it to attack their opponents.

@@nachocheese2823 "some people might do bad things so we shouldn't do anything." Just don't do the bad things. That's like saying we can't have prisons because some cops are racist. We can still have the prisons and just not be racist

But there won't be, that's the thing.

amazing

Denmark is the least corrupt nation in the world, ranked on the transparency international index.

Brilliant.

What was the restaurant like?

@@BowChickaWow classic Danish Inn known as a "Kro". So traditional Danish food like stægt flæsk, smørrebrød, flæskesteg. Also alot of scnaps is common those places.

The problem is, if it is politicized, it would totally focus on the side that is not in power at the time, then the next campaign cycle would be full of "see how corrupt side X is---vote side y!" We need to do a better job of vetting the politicians before they are elected...because in most cases the crimes were done as they were laying the ground work to get into office.

Nancy pelosi’s insider trading for example

The problem with that is it's the government. it's all corruption you. prosecute all the corruption and the whole thing falls apart.

​@@jasonbailey9139 that what's happening in Argentina, our vice president is currently being persecuted. Our last president also has an active prosecution, and accusations fly left and right. Every government wants to reform the judicial sistem every X amount of time so yeah, it can happen.

@@NACHOXXX4 Not illegal, despite being unethical. Insider trading laws do not apply to Congress or other legislatures.

Based and "Minimum Security Prison" pilled

@@conserva-chan2735 I wish more ppl had that right

@It's Ohaya! plenty do, it's just the management of the legal Grey areas surrounding parole that make it really tricky, especially in the U.S.

Same happened with park geun hye but then moon jae let her out

Yes, Italian law is weird like that.

Since the 70's if you include morales bermudez

Only when we conduct an investigation on the whole government and weed out and prosecute all of the politicians that have commited crime, only then will i believe that politics had no part in this arrest. P.s: dont get me wrong, Trump probably did this stuff and deserves it, but im sure hes _far_ from the only one.

Of course, one must actually have a crime before one “enforces the law”. Bragg has no right to enforce Federal law, and that assumes Cohen’s current claim is true, not his earlier versions.

Ted Kennedy Called.

If only Alvin Bragg felt that way.

That requires crimes to be committed in the first place.

Hi! Sorry to bother you with this, but I was thinking just a few minutes ago about how we suddenly don’t hear anything at all from Peru. For a few months, in Canada, we’d get regular updates on the situation with the protests. What’s going on? Is it still going on? Who are the criminals here? Depending on the source, it’s either Castillo and the protesters, or the opposition, including his former ally Boluarte.

​@@thomasprat7760 it's complicated, not on who is guilty but in why that happened. Castillo was always unpopular (because of ideology, politics and racism), but the core of his support were the andean and peassant population, which percieved him as some sort of reinvindicator of their status as citizens. In that period castillo did abuse of his influence and did tried to commit a coup out of desperation in the end of his mandate. But while that happened, congress just dedicate its time in trying to prove castillo's corruption with no results, showing to the public an open obstructionist attitud (mixed with a low perception of doing anything in matter of lawd and representation). When castillo's coup failed, congress celebrated and acted as if the coup was made by them, enraging the andean people that started protesting and revolting against the new president boluarte, while hundreds of people in jail forcing false charges of terrorism (peruvian right wing's favorite word), evident false proves against them and over 70 people killed in different parts of the country (even some in massacres by the state forces. Goverment tried to blame those killings as false flag attacks and blaming bolivia over the revolts even though bolivia was dirrctly affected by them and having its own revolting problems. In this moment, protests have been lowering in intensity, but the rejection on boluarte is still big, and now with new problems caused by natural disasters and diplomatic tandrums, zones that used to be loyal to her are now turning their backs.

In Latin America. Current Brazilian president went to Jail, Lula.

No

But Trump hasn't committed any crimes and in the US it's unconstitutional under the fourth amendment to have your house raided without a good reason.

No, being wanted for crimes opens a gate for extortion. Leaders should therefor have immunity. "Weaknes Corrupts" - Nietzsche

@@Ribulose15diphosphat Couldn't you just as easily argue that everyone should be locked up? That eventually so many people will be prosecuted are either the people who aren't corrupt, or the ones so good at hiding it that you can't find concrete anything on them.

Scoots in closer: That's not the real argument, the argument is that these charges in particular are flimsy, and will open the door to any DA in a deep partisan jurisdiction will do the exact same, ie Biden will now face a bunch of charges out of rural Texas and Florida once he leaves office. Scoots in even closer: What you and the author really don't get is your being played, the Democrats are doing this on purpose, they know the charges are bad but it has caused Trumps numbers to shoot up in the GOP primary, and just like in 2016 they want Trump to run because they think they have the better shot of beating him, then say DeSantis.

if only that zeal for democracy was applied equally

And don’t forget, PM Ehud Olmert did in fact go to prison, and President Moshe Katzav did as well (but for sexual crimes).

The judicial reform is over far more then Bibi's trial. The right has been pushing for judicial reform since 2005, when they felt betrayed by what they saw as the court's failure to protect their rights during the Disengagement. This is just the logical conclusion, when the extremes take over due to political deadlock and force their extreme vision forward. More moderate right-wing figures, like Ayelet Shaked, have successfully pushed forward more moderate judicial reforms, but the RZP-Otzma-and-radical-Likudniks bloc pushed too far. It has little to do with Bibi; other then taking powers away from the AG, it doesn't help him. Also, the way the trial's gone, it seems pretty clear he'll be acquitted.

And now he's being blamed (rightfully) for escalating the security situation in an attempt to distract from the protests (not the first time), while also giving the Jewish Supremacist ex-terrorist Ministry of Internal Security license to create a militia of religious youth gangs to combat the protesters and potentially fight against the actual military.

@@yaitz3313 How stable is Israel currently? No military coups happening anytime soon?

And Alain Poher (look him up, he's very interesting!) had a LOT of parking fines to his name, to the point the French authorities parceled up all of the fines and threatened Poher with legal action. Poher (who is universally loved in France - he joked once that the French public would trust him with everything except power!) paid up with alacrity.

It's because they didn't want to waste time, they just wanted to be quick and efficient. The guillotine companies also wanted to have cheap advertising...

Only two presidents, but we also have a bunch of former prime ministers who faced trial. And even in the current government, several ministers are being investigated.

Imagine you're a taxpayer in france and your president doesn't have affairs with models and strolls the street of paris with his motorroller. Like, whats the point?

I think that's what a lot of his supporters like about him tbh. In an era of every politician being the same carbon-copy airbrushed product in the same suit, it's hard to deny Trump is a breath of fresh air. Now, whether you enjoy the smell of said air is another matter altogether.

@@thatman8490 As a libertarian who voted for Trump both times, I can honestly say that is why he won. He was NOT an establishment politician and certainly had no particular party loyalties - his "Republican" platform is what Dems were running on in the 80s and 90s. He was the closest to an everyman America has gotten since Teddy Roosevelt.

Odd, considering he'd be a leftist if you go back 20 years 😅

Also, current PM Bibi Netanyahu has been facing corruption charges for years. I'm surprised it didn't get a mention in the video.

That bit about the statute of limitations in Italy seemed weird. It sounds like, with that system, anyone could avoid prison by dragging out appeals. I'm pretty sure that In most countries, if the original trial (or even just the indictment) was within the statute of limitations, it doesn't matter if it runs out before all appeals are final.

@@bxdanny i’m italian and trust me, justice takes its time. my father never had to pay a speeding ticket in the last five years because they keep arriving in the mail past the legal deadline.

It’s BUNGA BUNGA TIME!

Yes. The imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma lead to widespread riots and looting in July 2021, which was "the worst violence in South Africa since the end of apartheid". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_South_African_unrest

Interesting twist

Wouldn't be surprised Berlesconi has Mafia ties...

Haha! It caught my eye too. But, to be fair, it is not that out of place. It's more like Bill Clinton in front of the flag of California. And Helmut Kohl was born in Bavaria, so technically it is not really incorrect.

​@@MrAlsachti No he wasn't. Kohl was born in Ludwigshafen in the Rhineland, right? 👀

Ludwigshafen ist in der Pfalz, was damals zu Bayern gehörte. Erst nach dem Krieg entstand das Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz, das es zuvor nie gab. Die Oberpfalz gehört immer noch zu Bayern.

I think JJ confused it for the flag of the Palatinate. Which Bavaria had at one point.

That is the biggest concern, of course.

Don’t forget Rishi Sunak was also given an FPN for Partygate., and another recently for riding without a seatbelt

That's what I was thinking lol

Penalty notices =/= criminal charges. An example of criminal charges would be Jared O'Meara's fraud change or Fiona Onasanya for lying to police. I would also add 'don't forget about all the Labour councillors who turned a blind eye and/or covered up Moslem child groomer gangs' but, silly me, none of them were ever prosecuted.

FPNs are very minor cases. They are literally on the level of parking tickets, and really hold no consequences once paid. Including them would be pointless as every time a sitting or former leader got a parking ticket fine would have to be included. The only reason the FPNs were an issue is because Johnson lied to parliament repeatedly. It's the same reason why Sunak's FPN for Partygate and the seatbelt are minor as he simply accepted them like any normal individual.

Lula would be quite controversial to say the least.

replying bc I also want to know lol

Well, "No one is above the law" is just too catchy to add the _30 asterics_ nessicary

For what? And no, war crimes aren't admissable.

@@samhunt9361 darn

@@samhunt9361 Sure they are, as well as the torture regime, I mean, uh, "enhanced interrogation".

Nice right wing talking point dude

I mean, even if they are connected to another crime the existing charges are also crimes.

I guess you can conceal a crime without proving there is a crime. But you can't charge for the higher crime involved then lol, especially if the statute of limitations ran out. The main problem is the characterization of the payments involved, as they would say it was for another purpose other than quieting negative stories about Trump.

​@@JJMcCullough They are outside of his juristiction (federal level), they are outside of the statute of limitations, and the events discribed are likely not not to have occured in the way they were discibed, as if the safegaurds against false prosicution weren't enough.

@@legtendgav556 There are the federal campaign finance laws*, but also New York State election and tax laws which Trump probably violated which fit into the statute of limitations. I agree that it would have been better for the sake of transparency, even if the law does not require it, to detail in the indictment which crime Trump tried to conceal through falsifying the checks to Cohen. Unfortunately, that's just how prosecutors act in general- keeping their cards close to their chest so they can throw everything at the wall down the line. Not specific to charging former Presidents, but still an unfortunate practice. *It's also not clear that the federal campaign finance laws are outside of Bragg's jurisdiction, as he wouldn't be charging Trump with a federal crime, but saying that Trump tried to commit that federal crime through the violation of state law. The statute is unclear as to whether that is allowed.

​@@JJMcCullough not if he didn't commit the first mystery crime. Come on JJ, you're better than that

Boris wasn't a former leader at the time, though. He was still PM. It's one of the major reasons he isn't any more.

Fined while others were arrested by these insane laws that they made I don't think I'll get over that

Berlusconi is one of the wealthiest people in the country, also own majority of Italian media and has his political party… law doesn’t apply to him

Most heads of state are already litteral above the law. Sitting presidents and English monarchs for example.

There's one worse argument than that, which is the argument that prosecuting certain people would be "divisive" which implies that any political figure who forms a personality cult is immune from the law because it would incite political retaliation. This basically just gives the country away to whoever is the biggest psycho.

He definitely wears rose colored glasses with his statement U.S. presidents are squeaky clean and law abiding. Iran-Contra, wars of aggression, torture, warrantless wiretapping, droning U.S. citizens without due process come to mind.

At most he's gonna get his very own island like Apo did

@@k.umquat8604 hopefully he gets his own island like Menderes

Campaign finance laws in particular tend to be very strict, and are very stridently enforced.

The private nature of crimes related to abuse makes them very difficult to prove, unless a camera catches someone in the act. Financial crimes can be proven and documented by a forensic accountant.

There's other districts looking to go after him for more serious stuff, like in Georgia. But these people don't coordinate because they're prosecuting the same person, this indictment came out first merely because NY happened to have their paperwork and grand jury decisions done first.

He also skipped his court date, though to be fair Grant was only going 5km over the speed limit, and I doubt anyone alive today, or even then really morally judged him. Furthermore the man who arested him was Black, and Grant was apparently greatly impressed and happy with this fact, given how much he pushed for civil rights.

At the time, no, I don't think Ford himself was terribly happy with it, though as the years have gone on, more people have come to hesitantly agree with the pardon, such as Former Senator Ted Kennedy.

Sorry, I'm on da t00b

I remember that! It was deleted before I can watch it, though. What's the difference between that one and this one?

Imagine having almost all of your presidents, since 1985, being investigated or prosecuted for corruption and other crimes.

We are not held to the same legal standards as one and other, much less our leaders. Particularly in places like New York

@@legtendgav556 and Jersey. Thinking of John Corzine. All sorts of scandals and he just kept moving up the ladder.

True!

But don't call them trumped up charges!

The other crime is likely illegal campaign contribution. The prosecutors approach is likely going to be that, since records state that Trump paid the hush money specifically to defend his presidential campaign, the amount of money he was given in order to pay Stormy Daniels exceeded what was legal for campaign contributions.

Wonder why.😂

hahaha yessss

Jan. 6 was horrible. The people that rioted were obviously deeply delusional lunatics, and I agree that Trump bears a lot of responsibility for egging them on with his lies and nonsense.

@@JJMcCullough Still when those lunatics were storming capitol Trump posted a video in which he said to them "go home", just saying

For context my country is The Cayman Islands 🇰🇾 And it’s former speaker McKeeva Bush

@@chadpowell1832 The Cayman Islands, ah what a beautiful place! Unfortunately, it has acquired an association with white-collar money laundering somewhat relevant to the subject of this video. I wonder how many politicians, corporate magnates, and banksters around the world put their money in your tax haven nation, and I wouldn't be surprised if other former American presidents had funds there (such as Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama).

Sanader escaped from Croatia shortly before parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution. The authorities later issued a warrant for his arrest. Austrian police stopped him on a motorway in western Austria.

Lol. Good easter egg