Prof. Victor Menaldo is quoted in The Washington Post article, "Before Trump, here’s how some other countries prosecuted their ex-leaders", about how other countries have treated former leaders in the courts.
One of America’s closest allies recently saw an indicted leader return to office, with controversial results.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was charged in 2019 with fraud, breach of trust and bribery, while still in office.
Netanyahu and his conservative allies then set about trying to overhaul the country’s judiciary, even as the prime minister’s criminal prosecutions were ongoing, a plan that fueled intense unrest in Israel.
“It got to the point where he was trying to rig the judicial system by using the argument that there is a conspiracy theory against him," said Victor Menaldo, a political science professor at the University of Washington.
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