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I would also point out that there are frightening implications of the precedent for anyone within 6 degrees of separation from the president, any president, to be investigated without probable cause to the extent that if he posses behind a tree as a child it will be national news and prosecuted by the president's political enemies.
The most likely outcome I can see is a new class of operatives to work directly in campaigns and in the white house who are squeaky clean, perhaps including the candidate/president himself who are strictly go-between much like lobbyists isolating the real power brokers with skeletons in their closets from the people.
The most likely outcome I can see is a new class of operatives to work directly in campaigns and in the white house who are squeaky clean, perhaps including the candidate/president himself who are strictly go-between much like lobbyists isolating the real power brokers with skeletons in their closets from the people.