The Boston Globe: Forget impeachment. Donald Trump needs to resign-Few has asked Trump to do so!!

[riversedge]

He has a point. It was save us a lot of time and money and angst. But I do not think he will.




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Donald Trump needs to resign - The Boston Globe

Forget impeachment. Donald Trump needs to resign

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/09/27/forget-impeachment-trump-needs-resign/4yzQt3WQdVcATJxXTO1nPP/story.html

By Michael A. Cohen,September 27, 2019, 7:24 p.m.

Surprisingly few elected officials have called on President Trump to resign.
Surprisingly few elected officials have called on President Trump to resign.Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Getty Images

THE VISCERAL REACTION I had to the summary of President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was that he should resign the presidency. So obvious and brazen was the abuse of presidential power; so evident was Trump’s concern only for his own political interests; and so lacking was any consideration of the national interest.

But there are few in politics who seem to share this view. Aside from former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, it’s hard to find any elected official — Democrat or Republican — who has called on Trump to step down.



As the historian Rick Perlstein, author of “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan,” pointed out to me, in the weeks and months after the Saturday Night Massacre in October 1973, prominent members of Congress from both parties called on President Nixon to resign, including Senator Walter Mondale, a Minnesota Democrat, and Senator Edward Brooke, a Massachusetts Republican. Time magazine made the same demand in its first-ever editorial.

After the release of the “smoking gun” tape that showed Nixon had participated in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice, Republican senators, led by Barry Goldwater, solemnly trekked to the White House to tell Nixon he must relinquish the presidency.............................................


In 1998, when the Starr Report was released with its exhaustive tale of President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, 115 newspapers penned editorials calling on Clinton to resign. This week, just a couple of editorial boards have made a similar demand of Trump..................................


In 1998, when the Starr Report was released with its exhaustive tale of President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, 115 newspapers penned editorials calling on Clinton to resign. This week, just a couple of editorial boards have made a similar demand of Trump..............................

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Surprisingly few elected officials have called on President Trump to resign.
Surprisingly few elected officials have called on President Trump to resign.Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Getty Images

[FM123]

1. I wish he would, but I don't think he will. Too stubborn, too crazy.

[riversedge]

10. I wish he would also. But agree with you--Trump is too stubborn and crazy to resign.

[lagomorph777]

12. Make it worth his while. Offer to pay off his debt to Putin.

Then after he's out, bomb the shit out of Putin's residences.

[dugog55]

2. Yes, but if he resigns,

that phony baloney Christian Pence becomes President. He should go down with Trump's ship. Along with Barr and McConnell, at the very least. Probably two dozen more should also be implicated. Including the Don's evil offspring.

In truth, his whole presidency is a sham and illegitimate. All the judges he has posted, all the EO's he has written (and Don, they are not Bills as you like to think), everyone in that bullshit Cabinet and everyone else he has appointed to positions of power without being vetted by that partisan bunch of spineless, sycophant Republican Senators.

[SeattleVet]

3. I sincerely hope he doesn't resign.

He needs to have all of his sleazy activities exposed by the House for all to see, be then tried and convicted on multiple federal and state charges (regardless of whether the Senate votes to convict his sorry ass within the impeachment framework), and spend the rest of his miserable life in a small cell stewing in his own muddled thoughts.

He's almost reached his Queeg/strawberries moment...let the process continue and hope that sitting alone in a cell reflecting on all of his evil deeds and slowly coming to the realization that *he* is the loser finally pushes him over the edge into a well-deserved 'sitting in a corner and drooling into his shoes' state, to be written off in history as America's biggest mistake.

[leftieNanner]

4. Agreed!

I want him to suffer maximum pain - which would be equal to the pain he has inflicted on 300 million Americans plus immigrants who have been abused during his tenure!

And I also don't think he will resign because he is clinging to the idea that he can't be indicted as a sitting President, and he's scared shitless that he could end up in prison. His outward face tells the world that he will never be found guilty of anything, but his inner gut knows he's in trouble. However, if someone in his orbit recognizes that he is likely to go down, he may resign with some kind of a deal from Pence for a full pardon. This would not work for any state charges, so he will likely to hang on to the Oval Office while he can.

We shall see!

[Hoyt]

7. I suspect most voters -- including trumpsters -- suspect much worse than can be proven.

I’m fine with his resigning, getting pardoned, and dying a miserable old man who had a real chance to make the world a better place for everyone, but didn’t even try.

Sure he’ll go on to make hundreds of thousands of $$$ at rallies ranting to deplorable, ignorant white wing racists that he wouldn’t spend 10 seconds with otherwise.

Just get him out.

[Stuart G]

5. K and R...Also...I think his children will talk him into resigning..When? When it gets worse!!

And it will get worse, much worse. When will that happen?...As we move along to the inevitable vote and so on and so on.... More will come out. No, I don't know. But I do think there is "more"

[TheRealNorth]

6. I'm okay with either, but I think we have a better chance of exposing

The Republicans for what they are if we see impeachment through.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. Donald Trump ought to do the right thing and resign

but he won’t. Impeachment proceedings ought to move forward even if Moscow Mitch blocks a vote in the Senate and partisan Senators put party before country and balk at doing their duty and removing him from office.

[The Bopper]

9. Pointing out the obvious

There’s zero chance of him resigning until he’s made “a deal “ with Pence to pardon him and his family for their multiple crimes . Of course the monkey wrench in that may be Pences involvement also.

[lagomorph777]

13. Impeach Mike Penis first.

Then (within the hour) Trump.

[Blue_Tires]

11. I assumed resignation was a given once the heat gets hot enough?

[lagomorph777]

14. Trump isn't like that. He's The Black Knight.

[Stuart G]

15. Few may have asked, but I believe many will. nt.