No, you don't have to actually have become the president, been given ,7 million dollars and had a bunch of national security briefings to be charged with election fraud. He didn't actually need to be given access to national security data as POTUS to have been charged with taking bribes from China, or Ukraine. Get real. The minute you pull a gun out in a bank they can not only charge and arrest you, they can actually gun you down in the name of the security of the bank and everyone in it.