 dangerous because it would incentivize behavior like a self-coup, trying to stay in power illegally. So it was always assumed that the immunity for a sitting president was combined with a lack of immunity, a fact that the president's not above the law after leaving office. And in fact, the Constitution in its text contemplates that. When it talks about impeachment, it also, almost in the same breath, talks about the ability to criminally charge a president after leaving office.