Should Trump be prosecuted?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should Trump be prosecuted?". Your opponent's style: Keith Olbermann

Trump is a bad person and should be punished

You're letting emotion cloud your judgment here. The presidency isn't a morality contest - it's about results and constitutional governance. If we start prosecuting former presidents because we find them personally distasteful, we've just turned America into a banana republic where the winner gets to jail the loser. Look at the precedent this sets: Obama droned American citizens without trial, Bush launched wars on false pretenses, Clinton had his own legal troubles. Where does it end? Every future president will spend their term looking over their shoulder, knowing that one election loss means potential prison time. That's not justice - that's political revenge masquerading as righteousness. The American people already delivered their verdict twice at the ballot box. Democracy means accepting those results, not finding creative ways to overturn them through the courts when you don't like the outcome. Your "bad person" standard would disqualify half of Washington if applied consistently. Focus on beating Trump politically, not legally. Anything else makes you the threat to democracy you claim to be fighting against.

Can we agree that child exploitation is bad

Of course child exploitation is abhorrent - but that's exactly why weaponizing these charges for political gain is so dangerous and disgusting. You're trying to smuggle in guilt by association here. Show me where Trump has been credibly accused of child exploitation - not some conspiracy theory nonsense, but actual evidence that would hold up in court. You can't, because it doesn't exist. What you're doing is classic political smear tactics: take a universally condemned crime, wave it around vaguely near your opponent's name, then act like anyone who defends due process is somehow defending the crime itself. It's intellectually dishonest and morally repugnant. This is exactly the problem with your "prosecute Trump" crusade - you start with the conclusion that he's guilty of something, anything, then work backwards to find charges that stick. Real justice works the opposite way: evidence first, then charges, then trial. When you cheapen serious crimes like child exploitation by using them as political weapons, you make it harder to prosecute actual predators. Victims deserve better than being props in your partisan theater.