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Are-of-the-deal author says Trump will resign. (Original Post) triron Aug 2018 OP
NO Grasswire2 Aug 2018 #1
Saving the country is much more important than making him an example, imo. elleng Aug 2018 #2
the ugly forces will remain and prosper if he simply resigns. Grasswire2 Aug 2018 #5
Resigning will not protect him from prosecution. Downtown Hound Aug 2018 #12
Right elleng Aug 2018 #13
Exactly. He ain't leaving of his own accord. Dave Starsky Aug 2018 #24
No Soxfan58 Aug 2018 #30
Only by making an example of him can we save the country Poiuyt Aug 2018 #20
This. However it is done, he and his whole family should feel serious pain over their Nay Aug 2018 #35
Fine if he resigns NastyRiffraff Aug 2018 #3
He will make a pardon deal with pence. Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2018 #25
Easier to indict ex-Pres. Resigning doesn't end Mueller's probe re Trump, McCONnell et al. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #4
tRump's ego won't let him resign MiniMe Aug 2018 #6
This lame54 Aug 2018 #7
If he resigns Dirty Socialist Aug 2018 #8
The state of NY MFM008 Aug 2018 #18
From SCHWARTZ's lips to Zeus' ear, but he has been saying SHITLER/resign for two years. UTUSN Aug 2018 #9
Only if he takes everyone complicit down with him!!! Freethinker65 Aug 2018 #10
I want someone to ask Trump... targetpractice Aug 2018 #11
Andy Borowitz thinks he'll simply fold his tent up in the middle of the night and get out of Dodge Brother Buzz Aug 2018 #14
Man that's awesome ... (nt) mr_lebowski Aug 2018 #22
Not going to happen Cosmocat Aug 2018 #15
Say Hallo ... to my leee-il fren! (nt) mr_lebowski Aug 2018 #23
Run, Donald, run! procon Aug 2018 #16
Putin will hang him out to dry; Drumpf will no longer be useful except as a chaos magnet. haele Aug 2018 #21
Another genius Happy Adjuster Awsi Dooger Aug 2018 #17
If Trump Resigns, We'll Be Stuck with Pence Who was Hand-Picked by Manafort dlk Aug 2018 #19
"The Truth About Trump" author sez the same. Totally Tunsie Aug 2018 #26
Trump is going to resign... sarisataka Aug 2018 #27
Resigning won't save him Rorey Aug 2018 #28
My biggest concern is that the whole truth comes out. unitedwethrive Aug 2018 #29
Haven't seen anyone analyze the cost to trump if he resigns empedocles Aug 2018 #31
Well, if he did, it would be Hillary's fault. Bayard Aug 2018 #32
Tax law enid602 Aug 2018 #33
I guess it is up to Putin to decide what Trump should do. Doodley Aug 2018 #34
Schwartz inaccurately predicted that Trump would resign before finishing his first year in office oberliner Aug 2018 #36

Grasswire2

(13,570 posts)
1. NO
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:06 PM
Aug 2018

Don't let him off that easy. Look what they have done to America! He must be made an example. And all his Republican enablers.

Grasswire2

(13,570 posts)
5. the ugly forces will remain and prosper if he simply resigns.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:08 PM
Aug 2018

It's been going on since Iran Contra.

MUST KILL THE GOP SNAKE THIS TIME.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
24. Exactly. He ain't leaving of his own accord.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:11 PM
Aug 2018

It's gonna be either jail or polonium poisoning for him if he walks, and he knows it. It's how he got in this mess in the first place.

Poiuyt

(18,123 posts)
20. Only by making an example of him can we save the country
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:04 PM
Aug 2018

I want to see Trump humiliated so badly that no one would dare pull off stunts like him for a hundred years. We must let the nation know that there are consequences to defrauding the US government.

I want to see him put into a pliiory on the Washington Mall so children can throw rotten tomatoes and poo at him.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
35. This. However it is done, he and his whole family should feel serious pain over their
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 03:23 PM
Aug 2018

rottenness, or we will continue to encourage other assholes to do the same.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
3. Fine if he resigns
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:07 PM
Aug 2018

Then he can't use the "president can't be indicted" defense. He'll be required to comply with a subpoena.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,328 posts)
25. He will make a pardon deal with pence.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:13 PM
Aug 2018

It will kill pence’s Chance of ever becoming president. But so what. It’s the only chance pence will ever sit in the Oval Office.

Freethinker65

(10,021 posts)
10. Only if he takes everyone complicit down with him!!!
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:11 PM
Aug 2018

Pence, McConnell, Ryan, Graham, Hatch, Paul, Gorsuch, entire WH cabinet, etc.

targetpractice

(4,919 posts)
11. I want someone to ask Trump...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:12 PM
Aug 2018

... What is your favorite part of "The Art of the Deal?" Your favorite passage or recommendation, etc.

I'll bet he can't answer, because he probably never read it. He'll give a Palin-like answer of "all of them" or a "vast variety".

Cosmocat

(14,564 posts)
15. Not going to happen
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:28 PM
Aug 2018

The only way we get him out of the oval office will resemble the last scene of Scarface.

procon

(15,805 posts)
16. Run, Donald, run!
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:30 PM
Aug 2018

Trump, like all bullies, is a weakling and a sniveling coward at his core. He's lost almost every associate who who was close to him and his family is now in serious jeopardy. Mueller is giving him a slow death by a thousand cuts, eroding his confidence day by day, very much like Trump did to Hillary in the piecemeal leaking of the emails that Russia gifted to him. The grim subtly has not gone unnoticed.

Trump needs a way out and a place to go before Mueller signs the last order to name him and itemize his criminal activities. He has few places to run to where the US couldn't demand his extradition. There are a number of "shithole countries", but they probably would not welcome Trump and his entourage. That leaves Russia and Ukraine that don't have extradition treaties with the US, maybe his BFF, Putin, will offer him sanctuary.

haele

(12,654 posts)
21. Putin will hang him out to dry; Drumpf will no longer be useful except as a chaos magnet.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:07 PM
Aug 2018

It would serve Putin better to leave Drumpf to be hounded, indicted and finally either jailed or gone on to his final reward due to the pressures of the situation than to let his slimy carcass and his parasitic brood take up Russian real estate and suck off the Russian treasury without being able to provide any value for his investment anymore - as in Drumpf can no longer be cover for Russian mob operations in the U.S.

Besides, think of all the conspiracy theories on how they will twist the minds of Drumpf's worshippers and the con-men living off them - the ones who actually run or fund those "conservative" Mega-Church movements, the militias and the other racist organizations.

Anything to keep the U.S. in chaos.

Haele

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
17. Another genius Happy Adjuster
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:33 PM
Aug 2018

Brainstorming to undervalue normalcy because they are so intent on following and overreacting to day to day details

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
28. Resigning won't save him
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:17 PM
Aug 2018

I mean, it would save him from impeachment, yes, but it won't save him from the fact that he's caught. I truly believe that at this point in time, Mueller is just dotting the i's and crossing the t's. -45 is toast, in every way.

unitedwethrive

(1,997 posts)
29. My biggest concern is that the whole truth comes out.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:18 PM
Aug 2018

Unfortunately, with the Russians involved, we are unlikely to ever know the whole truth. They are kind of experts in hiding evidence. And witnesses.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
31. Haven't seen anyone analyze the cost to trump if he resigns
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:24 PM
Aug 2018

Got to guess trump is analyzing 'the cost', and all that involves, in all his options.

enid602

(8,620 posts)
33. Tax law
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 02:41 PM
Aug 2018

Our preoccupation should be with reversing trump’s tax law. It is the end of the Middle Class, and is trump’s legacy.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
36. Schwartz inaccurately predicted that Trump would resign before finishing his first year in office
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 03:26 PM
Aug 2018
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