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Why not Millard Filmore or Zachary Taylor? King George III, perhaps?

Regardless, I wasn't around for either but I can do a quick search and find Carter was the first sitting president questioned under oath[1], after a 7 month investigation. He was cleared but that does qualify as a scandal.

Eisenhower is going to be too easy, even as a war hero, but if you insist I will.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/nyregion/07curran.html



I suppose we should distinguish between "corruption scandal that found something", "corruption 'scandal' that cleared the President", and "corruption scandal where the President fired or tried to fire the investigators".


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But he is though. No other president has had quite so many people in his campaign staff jailed. https://www.axios.com/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-inv...


I'm glad you've found a metric that suits. Is this better or worse than the Afghanistan/Iraq war? Personally, I find the war(s) with its dodgy dossiers and myriad war crimes and everything that came out of it much worse but maybe I care more about people being bombed than people committing crimes like selling bank account numbers. How strange.

> He has no known connection to Trump.

Why is he listed then? I thought the headline read "All the Trump associates convicted or sentenced in the Mueller investigation" but maybe I'm wrong about that too. Am I wrong?




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