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Trump Resignation/Impeachment Canaries?

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Jimmy Higgins

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Well, with the 2020 election coming up and Trump apparently having stepped in it, in the first person, we are once again on the edge of what should make a President quit or be fired. The difference this time from the damning Mueller Report is that there appears to be little in the way of subjective interpretation. One the other 7 calls are shared and other documentation is passed around, Quid Pro Quo will be likely established and the sausage grinder gets warmed up.

So looking at the Election Map, I was wondering who would be the canary to indicate that things have gone past the point of salvaging (again) the Trump Admin. Sen. Joni Ernst and Sen. Tom Tillis and maybe Sen. Perdue comes to mind. I'm sure Sen. Romney will step up after others have as well, but it seems likely he won't be the first.
 
Waiting for Trump to say he has 'every confidence' in the President. That'll be the kiss of death.
 
If Trump suddenly goes on a previously unplanned diplomatic trip to Russia or Saudi Arabia, don't expect him to book a return trip. He may resign while oversees, or he may just try and claim he is still President while there, ignoring all laws and subpoenas. Then impeached or voted out, he will still claim to be the legitimate president, and it is all a Deep State conspiracy to undermine him.
 
I wonder if the Secret Service has a protocol for preventing the defection of someone under their care?
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
...Quid Pro Quo will be likely established and the sausage grinder gets warmed up.
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Forget Quid Pro Quo - it's not even needed. Nobody is disputing that Trump committed an impeachable offense:
If a president solicits help from a foreign country with his re-election campaign, he should be summarily impeached.
The house should impeach the fucker by noon today, and the trial in the Senate should end in a conviction by dinner time.
But that would be in a world where Republicans weren't a smarmy bunch of self-dealing criminals. As it is, even with the admitted crime and probable confirmation of undeniable quid pro quo using taxpayers' money as his own political bargaining chip, Trump's congressional yes-men will be hard pressed to vote to convict him because they come from districts full of ignorant morons who won't abide any affront to their orange avatar.
 
barbos said:
Has president Pence pardoned Trump yet?
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I'd bet a dollar that a conversation with the next president (if not Trump) will be had that goes something like, "if you so much as consider a pardon, we will do you like we did him, fuckface".
 
Gun Nut said:
barbos said:
Has president Pence pardoned Trump yet?
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I'd bet a dollar that a conversation with the next president (if not Trump) will be had that goes something like, "if you so much as consider a pardon, we will do you like we did him, fuckface".
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As a reminder for out of towners, the President can not pardon state convictions, only Federal. Nixon fucked up federal. Trump has left a wake of criminal acts.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Waiting for Trump to say he has 'every confidence' in the President. That'll be the kiss of death.
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That would be like Nixon having given someone his blessing. But the GOP is still the party of dirty tricks.

I'm old enough to have watched the Watergate hearings and did. Since then the GOP has learned there needs to be a counter narrative, a series of lies, that satisfies their base. Nothing of the kind existed during Watergate and so all eyes were on exposing the coverup. The GOP has simply gotten much, much better at generating and selling propaganda, it still wants power in any way it can get it, it's still anti-science, anti-environment, anti-higher education, anti-woman, anti-U.N., anti-black/latino, pro-christian, etc.

The best canary would be farmers feeling the GOP squeeze on their livelihoods and voting accordingly. Don't hold your breath because they're being paid off presently.
 
T.G.G. Moogly said:
Keith&Co. said:
Waiting for Trump to say he has 'every confidence' in the President. That'll be the kiss of death.
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That would be like Nixon having given someone his blessing. But the GOP is still the party of dirty tricks.

I'm old enough to have watched the Watergate hearings and did. Since then the GOP has learned there needs to be a counter narrative, a series of lies, that satisfies their base. Nothing of the kind existed during Watergate and so all eyes were on exposing the coverup. The GOP has simply gotten much, much better at generating and selling propaganda, it still wants power in any way it can get it, it's still anti-science, anti-environment, anti-higher education, anti-woman, anti-U.N., anti-black/latino, pro-christian, etc.

The best canary would be farmers feeling the GOP squeeze on their livelihoods and voting accordingly. Don't hold your breath because they're being paid off presently.
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Via socialism. It's just not for all of us, that would be bad.
 
His handlers in Moscow wouldn't want him to resign, it's not going to happen. (Note that I do not think he's actually a Russian agent--he's being manipulated by one, he's too stupid to be one himself. He couldn't keep the secret.)
 
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