Can A Pesidential Candidate Be Indicted? Searching D.D.G., the answer, apparently is “no comprende’ you must be asking... “can a sitting president be indicted?” Thousands of returns for indictment of a “sitting president”, regardless of my search text, the real question. So, can a presidential candidate be indicted? I rarely post questions and fairly new, but thought that this was interesting enough, with all the Demonrats expected to run?