When Trump realizes his best option is to resign, he will do it.

[shockey80]

Trump is a one trick pony. He is like a broken record. He does the same routines over and again. He fights until he sees he cannot win and then he looks for a way out.

Trumps best option will be a pardon from Pence.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Certainly has a history of folding.

[GWC58]

2. I wish!

Trump resign? I just don’t see it. He does look kinda red in the face, though. He has a “unhealthy glow.” Not saying I’d want anything to happen to him. I never wish I’ll on others. Not even Trump.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. We're likely to find out via a 3:30 a.m. Tweet from Trump Tower

after he's left D.C.

[haele]

11. And is on his way to Dubai, or maybe Sochi?

I'd be expecting a 3:30 a.m. tweet from one of his "friend's" private jet after a last late-night gorging out on a tray of Big Macs and fries delivered from the Mickey-D's off I-95 just north of Arlington. This, after Jarad gets his subpoena.
Melanie and Barron will be left at Drump's Dump to muddy things up while he's making his getaway - with or without Ivanka.

Haele

[Botany]

4. Mueller has Trump's lawyer, his accountant, his campaign manager, his campaign manager's top ...

.... assistant, and his former national security advisor (Flynn) all telling everything about Trump.

I hope you are right about Trump feeling the heat and quitting. And it might be very soon too
especially if Don Jr* gets indicted.


* https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142196476

[exboyfil]

5. Why

His best course would be to fire everybody he views as a danger and issue blanket pardons for everyone including himself.

Why would you ever give up the best hand in the game (the Presidency of the United States)?

He stands a good chance of even getting reelected in spite of all this. Anybody watching the 2018 election can see that.

I can't remember which Jack Ryan movie it was, but one of the CIA administrators took a letter out of a wall safe (I think it was authorization for action) from the President and taunted Jack Ryan for not having one.

[mitch96]

14. "issue blanket pardons for everyone including himself. "

That's on the federal level.. The NYS AG will then rip him a new butt hole...
Karma is a bitch...
m

[RDANGELO]

6. If that happens, that will be a big blow to the Republican Party.

[FakeNoose]

7. Maybe, but I still want to read the special investigator's final report

Don't stop writing it, Mr. Mueller!

[EleanorR]

8. I can't see Putin letting his puppet do that

Putin needs the US to continue to legitimize him on the world stage, and trump was promised a lifetime job like Xe. Pence just doesn't have the same ability to mobilize the nut jobs.

[Merlot]

10. pense was chosen by putins guy manifort, pense is likely also putins puppet

pense will mobilize the religious nut jobs, the other nut jobs will probably just go along.

[Thekaspervote]

15. The Kremlin has already issued a statement that better US relations since the midterms not possible

Putin will be watching, but when the Dems start investigating on 1/2019 dotard’s standing will quickly fall

[elocs]

9. I don't see Trump resigning because he would miss the adoring crowds and the perks of being POTUS.

I could see Trump declaring his presidency the greatest success in history and choosing not to run because he would claim there was a massive conspiracy against him that would steal the election. But I could also see him running and losing and claiming the same thing.

Our expectations of the outcome of the Mueller investigation will be are so sky-high that many will be disappointed if Trump is not marched off to prison in an orange jumpsuit. I think we've all lived long enough to realize that just because you really, really want something to happen doesn't mean it will. How many were confident that Bush and Cheney were going to be frog marched to
The Hague?

[KPN]

12. He's too stupid. He actually believes he can pardon himself.

[LincolnRossiter]

13. If I didn't hate him I would have felt sorry for him after yesterday's press conference...

The WH correspondents did precious little to press his buttons (though they certainly intentionally pressed his buttons) and he completely lost his shit.

He's frightened, unbalanced, and unhappy. If his piece of shit son actually gets indicted, I don't know what that's going to portend. Maybe he eventually will quit. But it's going to get a little dicey going forward here.

[Paladin]

16. Sounds like rational behavior. Don't count on it from trump. (nt)

[MoonRiver]

17. I think he will do ANYTHING to keep his tax returns from being released.

So, yes, I believe he would resign if he got guarantees those returns would remain private, and Pence promised to pardon him.

[grantcart]

18. Under an avalanche of civil and criminal action he will try to negotiate a parachute out

[GeorgeGist]

19. Maybe ...

if throwing Ivanka to the wolves doesn't work.