A number of commentators have noted that there is nothing to prevent Trump from running for President while in jail, and some even mention that it has been done before, but they don’t say the name of the candidate.
It was Eugene Debs, socialist candidate for the presidency, who ran a number of times. The last time he ran (1920) he was in prison for advocating socialism and opposing U.S. entry into World War I. That, of course, was his right as a citizen in a democratic country with a First Amendment guarantee of free speech, but it was during the First Red Scare when all kinds of illegal acts were done.
Debs, by the way, was pardoned by Warren Harding, the man who won the presidential election in 1920. Harding, in case you forgot, was a Republican.
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