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SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Sadly no. You can still run even if charged for some dumb reason.

The most obvious reason is that it's not particularly difficult to press charges against somebody, especially when you've got multiple state governments you can bounce between as needed to find somebody willing to exaggerate or misinterpret evidence for political gain. Press charges six months before the election to kick your most credible opponent out of the running, tie those charges up in court for a year before eventually letting the not guilty verdict through, and you've won the election by taking your opponent's strongest players out of the running.

Of course, the flip side is that having a criminal for president isn't exactly a good thing (though the trumpettes have shown themselves fully willing to gobble that right up), and having somebody convicted after being elected makes things awfully complicated, but on the whole I think it's probably for the best that simply charging somebody doesn't exclude them. That would just be too easy to abuse (and absolutely would be).