Pelosi pushes for resignation

[struggle4progress]

BY SARAH LYNCH BALDWIN, GRACE SEGERS, KATHRYN WATSON, CAROLINE LINTON
UPDATED ON: JANUARY 8, 2021 / 9:47 PM / CBS NEWS

... Sources told CBS News that Mr. Trump does not plan to step down, but for the first time the White House has acknowledged impeachment is a real possibility, saying it would only further divide the country. The White House on Friday called the articles of impeachment "politically motivated" and repeated Mr. Trump's claims from the night before that he was calling for "healing and unity."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement on Friday that it is Democrats' "sincere hope" that Mr. Trump will "immediately resign." But, she said that if he does not, she is prepared to move forward on Congressman Jamie Raskin's 25th Amendment legislation and motion for impeachment.

In a one-hour call with Democratic lawmakers earlier Friday, Pelosi supported removing Mr. Trump from office, although a source on the call told CBS News her preference had been for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. President-elect Joe Biden deflected when asked about it on Friday, saying it was "up to Congress to decide" ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/us-capitol-riots-fallout-2021-01-08/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump will want a deal if he is to resign??

McConnell probably wants Trump to resign. Avoids an up and down Senate vote on
impeachment which is no win for the R's.

Can McConnell lean on Trump enough to get him to resign which Trump does not want to do unless he gets something in return.

What will he ask McConnell for in return?

[Clearly fogged in]

5. Trump doesn't process that people live outside his range of vision.

We do not exist, we are resources.

edit add: resources or problems

[Irish_Dem]

6. Exactly. If someone wants him to do something, it will cost them.

He does not understand the common good.
People, the government, the country are just things he can use or manipulate to his benefit.

[Clearly fogged in]

9. Lee Marvin says, let's have a drink for old times sake.

The saloon keeper says, for old times sake? that means you ain't got no money. Trump has nothing. nothing. no power. no money. no intelligence information. no friends. only followers. just like in The Truman Show.

[Irish_Dem]

10. That is exactly why he would drive a hard bargain. He doesn't have much.

Of course he has probably pocketed a good chunk of the US Treasury by now.

[Clearly fogged in]

11. Trump is not in the discussion.

Does it have to be on the news that trump is at this time not able to deal with all these things by himself? He doesn't trust the bottom of his own foot because he can't see it. He won't let anyone help him. He needs treatment.

[Irish_Dem]

12. If he cannot discuss, his attorneys will handle the deal.

I am not sure how sick he is at this point.
If he is just a plain sociopath or psychotic.

[grumpyduck]

2. They're complaining it's politically motivated?

Excuse me, assholes, but isn't EVERYTHING in Washington politically motivated? Who the fuck do you think you're fooling, pricks?

[Irish_Dem]

8. They are lying, that is all they know how to do.

[Orangepeel]

3. McConnell might be able to convince him to resign

by threatening that he would be convicted in the senate and lose the perks of being an ex-president

he won't do it, though

[Irish_Dem]

7. That might tempt Trump, he loves perks and trappings of importance.

[Straw Man]

13. It's more than that.

McConnell might be able to convince him to resign

by threatening that he would be convicted in the senate and lose the perks of being an ex-president

Not only would he lose the perks, but he would be the only President in history to be impeached twice and convicted in the Senate. That's a helluva legacy. Not that his legacy is anything but a steaminng dungheap already, but he doesn't -- or can't -- understand that.

[CentralMass]

4. No deals for tRump.

[blogslut]

14. Senator Turtle seems to have landed on his back

Mitch can't stop the House from impeaching the president. Trial or no trial, vote or no vote, whatever this GOP-led senate does in response is gonna suck for them.