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Latest fundraising e-mail from Team Trump. Give us money to help "defend the President." This is going to be the narrative leading up to 2020...Trump is under assault and a vote for him is a vote to "defend" him against "his" (and implicitly "your") enemies. Gonna get ugly. 
This is another argument for impeachment. If he's not impeached but loses in 2020, there will be pressure to indict him for some of the clear crimes that have been revealed these past few years (campaign finance violations, tax fraud, money laundering, etc.).
Putting a former President in jail would put the US in total banana republic territory...and it would also be hard to make the case for why he *shouldn't* be held accountable to the law. There's no good solution.
But impeachment, as the appropriate political remedy, might mitigate the calls for harsher judgments after he leaves office...thus avoiding the specter of a recently defeated President on trial.
