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pretty sure other people have been convicted of crimes before. he is fantastically old though. maybe he got sent to juvie back in his childhood hometown of Bedrock and was the first convicted criminal!

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pretty sure other people have been convicted of crimes before.

name one.

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Technically, President Grant got pulled over, and taken into custody, in 1872 for “speeding on a horse within the city limits of Washington DC.” It was the third such ticket he was given in his life, the first two being in the early part of the 1860s when he was just a General. The cop tried to let him go, and Grant cited section 1983 of the federal code that had been passed a few months previously in 1871 that stated unequivocally that no one is above the law, not even a sitting president.

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Hmm out of curiosity, what’s the current status of that law?

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you didn’t need to but you did choose to preface this with “technically” which should have tipped you off that this really isn’t in the same arena.

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There was a socialist candidate for president Eugene V. Debs, running from a prison cell in 1920

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Al Capone

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They shoulda specified felonies.

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pretty sure my uncle got put away for felonies ages ago.

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Is your uncle a former President of the United States who works at Nintendo?

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