Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Eric Himpton HolderEnd impeachment's government shutdown Parties to wage census battle with outside groups Welcome to third-world democracy and impeachment MORE said President Trump
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Asked during a CNN interview with former Obama adviser David Axelrod
David AxelrodSanders, Warren appear to have tense moment onstage after debate Warren faces online criticism over past big donor fundraisers Krystal Ball: Media turns on Buttigieg, will this end him? MORE whether the president could be prosecuted, Holder said, "I don’t think there’s any question about that."
"We already have an indictment in the Southern District of New York," the Obama administration official said, referencing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
Michael Dean CohenJuan Williams: Counting the votes to remove Trump Treasury adviser pleads guilty to making unauthorized disclosures in case involving Manafort Michael Cohen calls for early release from prison MORE's guilty plea to campaign finance violations.
"Individual-1 is the president, and it would seem to me that the next attorney general, the next president, is going to have to make a determination," he said.
CNN’s @davidaxelrod: “If there is no impeachment, do you believe that [Trump] is subject to prosecution after he leaves office?"
— CNN (@CNN) September 14, 2019
Former Attorney General Eric Holder: “I don’t think there’s any question about that.”
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Cohen is in prison for campaign finance violations stemming from hush money payments. He testified before Congress in February that Trump directed him to make the payments.
Justice Department guidance says a sitting president can't be indicted.
