After Trump indictment, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, other ex-leaders may identify other leaders

After Justice For All was sung by the arrested Jan. 6 insurrectionists, President Donald Trump said he felt like Elvis Presley.

After his indictment, Trump may identify more with former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Israel's newly re-elected prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former South Korean President Park Geun-hye or former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian - all former leaders who were either jailed or prosecuted for wrongdoing.

In 2018, Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years for corruption.

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On the heels of Trump's indictment, NYU Criminal Law Professor Andrew Weissmann told the BBC that the U.S. is now joining other so-called first-world countries around the globe where criminal cases are brought against their leaders.

Now that we have seen something historic in this country, which is the first time that a leader or former leader has been held criminally for alleged wrongdoing, it makes it somewhat easier for both grand jurors and prosecutors to sort of cross that rubicon and not feel like they have more evidence than you would normally need to have. It is important to the rule of law that people are held accountable for whether or not they used to be the president or not, said Weissmann, who served as a lead prosecutor in the special counsel office of Robert Mueller.

This is new for us, and this is not new for other countries, Weissmann said.

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