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New Breed Leader

(624 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 06:08 PM Oct 2019

Will Trump relinquish power peacefully? Not if he can avoid it

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/marc-ash/86846/will-trump-relinquish-power-peacefully-not-if-he-can-avoid-it

You can be one hundred percent certain that Trump will legally challenge any legal mandate to end his grip on the presidency short of at least eight years. That combined with even random acts of violence by his supporters could make for very tense days.

It also bears noting that any legal challenge Trump might mount to being removed from office would almost certainly end up in the Supreme Court. It’s a court that could opt for a redux of Bush v. Gore, regardless of the merits.
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Will Trump relinquish power peacefully? Not if he can avoid it (Original Post) New Breed Leader Oct 2019 OP
Fuck no thegoose Oct 2019 #1
Shades of the Handmaid's Tale. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #4
If he is impeached and removed or simply loses and refuses to leave, arrest him. Moostache Oct 2019 #2
If he survives to next November, and then loses the election, leftieNanner Oct 2019 #5
Change is needed WVlaserguy Oct 2019 #7
Agreed leftieNanner Oct 2019 #8
I have no qualms about the next president throwing his ass in jail for as long as necessary. LonePirate Oct 2019 #3
Would love to see him dragged out of the White House, TheCowsCameHome Oct 2019 #6
Me too New Breed Leader Oct 2019 #9
 

thegoose

(3,115 posts)
1. Fuck no
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 06:11 PM
Oct 2019

This is going to get bad. He's in such deep shit now he's going to have to shoot Democrats that are looking to impeach his filthy orange ass.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. If he is impeached and removed or simply loses and refuses to leave, arrest him.
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 06:16 PM
Oct 2019

The Secret Service would be within their rights to simply grab him and incarcerate him as a trespassing threat to the duly elected president on January 22, 2021 (or as soon as the president-elect is sworn in).

If the GOP refused to seat the Electoral College, then the government would cease to exist as a functioning body and we would be in a truly uncharted place...at which time assassinations, coup d'etats, mass incarcerations and "disappearances" and all number of unthinkable actions become likely or possible.

Trump has shown just how thin the veneer of civility in our government really is...he is willing to break the whole thing to prevent others from taking it back...are we willing to break him off at the knees to prevent it is the question. The GOP is clearly NOT up to the task, period.

leftieNanner

(15,121 posts)
5. If he survives to next November, and then loses the election,
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 06:31 PM
Oct 2019

The most dangerous period will be between then and January 20, 2021 at noon, when the new President will be put into office. At that point the US Marshalls will remove him from OUR White House. But he will have two months to make mischief - and make it he will. That is why I am hoping that he is impeached by the house, with lots of damning details being released to the public. This will make it very difficult (but not impossible) for Mitch to support his presidency. His former Exec. VP, Barbara Res(sp?) has suggested that his ego will make him resign in order to save face. She indicated that he will not abide being impeached and he will find some excuse to quit. I don't see it myself, but we live in very strange times.

WVlaserguy

(44 posts)
7. Change is needed
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 06:59 PM
Oct 2019

And this is why something needs to be done with lame duck period. It's a left-over from the 1700's.

leftieNanner

(15,121 posts)
8. Agreed
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 07:24 PM
Oct 2019

Both for the Presidency and the Congress. Even states too, I guess. Look what happened in Wisconsin and North Carolina. when the new Governor was a Democrat, both states Republican legislatures passed laws neutering the new governor - which was signed into law by the lame duck R Governor. Some of that was pulled back through the courts, but it's terrible. I guess we have the transition period for a new Presidential administration to allow for time to get organized, but it allows for shenanigans (an not in a good way) by the past president. Geez. So many things we took for granted as "the way we do things" have been destroyed by Trump and the new brand of Republicans.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
6. Would love to see him dragged out of the White House,
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 06:37 PM
Oct 2019

hog tied and his fat ass being rolled across the White House lawn and left at the curb.

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