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berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 01:14 PM Sep 2019

What Happens When...

What happens when people who refuse to follow an illegal order have all left the administration?

There should be people right now telling Trump he cannot order the arrest of Rep. Schiff for Treason.

There should be people right now telling Trump he cannot threaten civil war.

There should be people right now telling Trump he cannot threaten to expose the whistleblower.

Each time someone tells Trump he can't do something, they are put in a situation where they may have to resign or they will be fired or worse.

Each time someone who does tell Trump he cannot do something, there is one less person near Trump who will tell him he can't do something.

What happens when there is no one left who will tell Trump he can't do something?

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RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
1. I think we are on your last statement about now. "What happens when there is no one left who will
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 01:29 PM
Sep 2019

tell Trump he can't do something?" He has surrounded himself with a very bizarre cast of characters!

Caliman73

(11,736 posts)
3. His administration implodes.
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 02:49 PM
Sep 2019

The people with the sense to tell Trump that he cannot go against the Constitution and the historical institutions that have kept the country running for the last 2 centuries are likely the people who know how to get things done, who understand the workings of government.

Trump will be left with people who are sycophants (his kids) or self serving people with their own agenda (Miller, Ross, etc...) but those people don't know how to run a government and so will do things that are increasingly alarming to the people and to other nations, which in my opinion, will lead to increased pressure and eventually to Trump himself imploding and getting into deeper trouble.

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