Guessing what will happen seems to be growing in popularity.

I guess

especially now that his brood is threatened. One.

It can only be federal pardons not state pardons the president can do? So they need to add some state charges in there that are serious serious.

n/t

Thanks for todays case of depression

In another post of mine today I asked the question as to why the Repugs always protect Trump, circle the wagons and come to his aid.

With all the damage he's done to the Repug Party - you would have thought they would have abandoned him months ago. On a day to day basis - they don't know what he'll pull next to put another nail in the coffin of the Repug Party.

My only theory is that the Party knows that through voter suppression and Russian interference in future elections - that they have a lock on the power base that they currently enjoy. They know that they can't lose in 2018 and 2020.

Your post seems to bear that out.

Thanks to his moran base, its a headless out-of-control goon.

Trump Inc. is clearly angling for massive voter suppression and electronic voter fraud with the help of his Russian mob friends.

that some key GOP leaders are in this up to their turtle necks & they know if they go after the Con, he will fink them out.

Throughout the whole primary season; the run-up to the election; the transition into the presidency and since then - Trump has been privy to all of the Repug dirty tricks. I'm thinking he told them if they don't protect him - if he goes down - he'll take them down with the intimate knowledge he has of the Repug Party.

And if he doesn't happen to have dirt on them - he'll just make some up to take them down. He's a master at lying and fake news and I'm sure he'd concoct some terrible story as to just how crooked the Repug Party is.

Who will the people believe? hmmmmm.......

McConnell's slime. Ryan too. All the GOP leadership, really. I hope if one of them starts ratting, the whole nest will devour itself.

like this very well may be the case.

I'm gratified that despairing posts like this are becoming less and less common as the momentum builds...

Muellers position is one that was intentionally given civil service protections. So he can't be fired arbitrarily, only for cause, and there is a long process that would have to be followed to do that.

yup

Trump will make up any excuse to get rid of him.

Kellyanne and Sanders will giddily back him up

GOP states enacted racist voter suppression laws - they worked in 2016

No repercussions for the GOP

Obama didn't get to choose his nominee for the SCOTUS - McConnell and Trump did.

No repercussions for the GOP

Sessions lied about his contacts with Russia - and he is still AG.

No repercussions

The GOP Congress will use the preordained Kobach Commission conclusion to enact even more virulent anti-voting laws.

It's coming and there is not much we can do to stop it.

You can use your imagination to create fears or create solutions.

Because we've all had more than enough time to galvanize ourselves and The Republic against the long term threat this corruption has raised. It didn't just happened magically when this corrupt egomaniac was handed the Presidency. This issue has been the most important one facing the United States of America for almost 40 years, but until now powerful distractions have been created and manipulated to keep the focus elsewhere.

At some point the corruption has to be shaken off or it will overtake and consume. Which is it going to be? We're about to find out.

Each of us gets pessimistic sometimes, no matter how long we've been in the fight, the trick is not to start discouraging others and do the Right's work FOR them.

Need more coffee... and yes, I'm pretty sure we're both in agreement and on the same page of agreement.

He can't just arbitrarily do it, he has to show misconduct and prove it.

And it can't be done instantly, it would be a drawn or process.

I don't know if you have ever worked for the Federal Government, but it's very, very hard to fire people with civil service protections. The caught 2 VA employees abusing the system to manipulate vacancies so they could swap jobs in order to abuse a program designed to help transferring VA employees not take a loss on anhoem during the housing crisis in order to get the VA to buy out their homes at pre-crash prices. They still have jobs. They literally pressured subordinates to change jobs so they could take their jobs in order to defraud the VA out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to get out from bad housing buys- and are still employed.

For all practical purposes he can't be fired.

wish i didn't, wish i was all sunshine and lollipops.

but i think you are right

If your scenario goes down...and based on what we've been witnessing the past several months, it could well come to fruition in the manner you present...NY AG Schneidermann will probably issue indictments against Trump and his sycophants for multiple RICO violations, money laundering, obstruction of justice, income tax evasion, et al.

Remember. Trump was a felon under investigation for YEARS prior to announcing his candidacy. His campaign violations are only the most recent iteration of his criminal ways.

Make no mistake. Trump will go down, one way or the other.

yup

Trump will either be REMOVED or RESIGN from office. Pence or Hatch will become POTUS and the Republicans will lose bigly in 2018 & 2020.

The appointment of the Special Counsel, made by Acting AG Rosenstein, is governed by specific regulations, cited by Rosenstein when he made the appointment. Under those regulations, a special counsel “may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General” [in this case, the acting attorney general]. Moreover, the regulations state that a special counsel can only be removed “for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies.”

I don't

Because Mueller can ignore being "fired" by Trump and keep on doing his job. Then what is Trump going to do? Go to court?

this clown gets reelected. Eventually his house of cards will fall and with it his bid for reelection. Then we motivate people to vote in 2018 and 2020 and turn this thing around.