Past presidents, while never indicted, have faced legal woes of their own
Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were both impeached by the House of Representatives. But Trump is the first former U.S. president ever to face criminal charges.
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By Ron Elving
If you live in the United States today, the one historical fact you are most likely to have heard is that former President Donald Trump is the first president to ever face criminal charges.
What is not as well-known is how many previous presidents came close — or might have come close — to confrontation with the U.S. criminal justice system.
Unique as he is in many ways, Trump is not the first president to gaze out the White House windows and wonder if one day he might wake up behind bars.
We have had one president who was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” by a federal grand jury in a breathtakingly wide conspiracy case that sent some of Washington’s biggest names to jail.
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