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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill 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-itIt also bears noting that any legal challenge Trump might mount to being removed from office would almost certainly end up in the Supreme Court. Its a court that could opt for a redux of Bush v. Gore, regardless of the merits.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)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.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)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)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)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)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.
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)hog tied and his fat ass being rolled across the White House lawn and left at the curb.