For those who think Dump will resign soon

[SHRED]

I don't see it.
I don't see him handing over the power to pardon to anyone else.
I could be wrong but that's a lot to give up considering what he's facing.

[samnsara]

1. i think he will if he can get a better deal..like his own tv show with all his minions...

[AlexSFCA]

6. he won't be satisfied with a 'tv show' after being president

[L. Coyote]

14. He'll be an assisted living recluse in the New Trump Tower.

And the wife gets the penthouse.

[brush]

2. Maybe not so farfetched. Nixon made a deal with Ford to be pardoned if he resigned.

[SHRED]

3. I think this is more widespread

And there are family members involved.

[brush]

8. Most likely. trump will try to make deals for all of them if it comes to that.

I'm in a wait-and-see mode myself with fingers crossed.

It's almost too delicious a thing to think it could actually happened.

Of course trump needs to be removed but I thought if it were to happen it would be the kicking-and-screaming-and-possibly-strait-jacket variety.

Now that would be delish, with video at 11:00.

No, check that. That story would be so y-u-u-u-u-g-e they'd newsflash into all programming immediately.

[tblue37]

10. He doesn't need to make deals for his family and cronies. He can just pardon

everyone before he resigns. He only needs to get Pence to pardon him. Pence will promise that in a heartbeat, because he so wants to be president, and because the Republicans really, really want Pence to replace Trump before 2018.

[brush]

11. I sense some optimism in your post. Pence of course is no picnic though.

It would be to our advantage if it happened closer to the 2018 election but that would mean having to endure trump for several more months.

[tblue37]

12. Frankly, I fear Pence even more than Trump. Trump is so stupid and out of control

that he undermines the Republican agenda, but simply by contrast Pence will be seen positively by inattentive voters, and Pence also is more likely to help get the Republicans' bills passed.

He also will probably help GOP candidates in 2018, whereas Trump is more likely to energize our voters.

[NightWatcher]

4. But when the Cabinet and Congress come to tell him it's time to go and he has zero options,

I expect him to acknowledge reality or be carried off.

[Squinch]

9. I'd go with the "carried off." Accepting reality is not in his nature.

[AlexSFCA]

5. those who think he will resign are naive

and lack imagination. IMO, we're just in the very beginning of it all. This election will have decades of consequences. I can see him dying for health reasons (or cocaine overdose) before resigning. No he won't let himself to get impeached without destroying the country AND the world.

[Hoyt]

7. We (and I at times), thought he wouldn't win primary, would not survive convention, would lose

general election, would resign by now, etc. If he ever really thinks of resigning, it will be to avoid impeachment or he becomes too ill to continue (physical illness, not mental illness because he's already there).

[Javaman]

13. I agree...

he will go down in a flaming pile of toxic bullshit. And take everyone and anyone near him with him.

[Wounded Bear]

15. You can kind of see the bunker mentality he exudes...

I suspect he'll want to go down in a blaze of glory, and take as much down with him as he can.

Life sucks, and then you die.

[leftstreet]

17. Yep, he'll be asking his aides if he can dissolve Congress

He's probably FINALLY taking an interest in his job description, trying to find out what powers he has to burn all of us down

[dalton99a]

16. Not happening. He'll milk this gig as long as he can

while causing as much destruction and suffering as he can.

[ElementaryPenguin]

18. When Mueller's DC Grand Jury indicts Traitor Trump - he will resign - for he is as guilty of the

Highest crimes as he could possibly be, he's been caught red-handed, and he'll have virtually no defense.

He's just grandstanding at this point - getting the most out of this very temporary job (or opportunity - as he sees it).

After he resigns, he will claim the evidence was rigged - that he was framed by the establishment that wanted him out because he was going to do so many great things to improve this country for the oppressed white people of America.

He will remain visible on his Trump TV website - or perhaps get his own show on Fox News, and remain the darling of the hardest of hard right.

[spanone]

19. that ego will not allow it.

[Orsino]

20. He has impressive resources to help him hang on...

...but it's exhausting him and exposing him to more ridicule than he can stand. I don't know if the resignation will be soon, but it has to be on his mind. Pardons from Pence could make it so easy for him to walk away from the job he never wanted.

I mean, I think. But I keep being wrong.