Is Donald Trump the First President to Have a Run-In With the Law?

“I am very sorry, Mr. President,” officer William West allegedly said to Ulysses S. Grant in 1876, “…but duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest.” It was the second time in two days that West, a veteran born into slavery, had stopped Grant, a sitting president who had led the Union Armies to victory during the Civil War. A mother and child had been badly injured by a joyrider and West had been sent to investigate the area, where he heard the President was among the reckless riders. As if on cue, West spotted… Read Full Article