Trump is done!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The only question is whether he loses in 2020 or is removed from office before then. It's just not the Cohen revelations. It's the confluence of so many factors.

[lagomorph777]

1. Voters severely punished him in the mid-terms, and the shit-storm is really just beginning.

When the Trump Tax Hike becomes evident to most people in the January to April 2019 time frame, rage against Trump and the Trumpublicans will soar to new heights.

And when Mueller reveals (directly, or through a variety of "dead-hand" automatic triggers) the full extent of the Trump Organization's treason, there will be blood in the streets.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It is more likely than not the economy will be worse in 2020 than it is now.

The only question is whether we will be in a recession or a <2% growth GDP environment.

[elocs]

17. Didn't voters severely punish Obama in his first midterm election?

Yet he was easily reelected.
So I wouldn't read in too much to the midterm losses for Republicans which is not unusual for a president's first midterm election.

[lagomorph777]

21. Obama didn't have numerous criminal investigations of him, and he didn't set up economic time bombs.

When Mueller reports/indicts, when the Trump Tax Hike takes effect, and when exports grind to a halt, voters will be angrier even than they are now.

[NightWatcher]

2. Better still is it has to be dawning on trump that he's in trouble and Mueller has him.

Prepare for a noisy death rattle.

[USALiberal]

4. You realize we have said that weekly for months??? Nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Au contraire.

A lot of people were under the impression we were done and Trump is ten feet tall.

[Bonx]

13. Like twenty months. But it will be true at some point!

[USALiberal]

14. LOL, good point! Nt

[Garrett78]

15. When it gets predicted pretty much daily, it becomes meaningless.

Obviously Trump will be gone eventually. That's a given.

[Hoyt]

6. I don't think today's revelation takes him down. We've known he lied about Moscow for a long

time, and no one that matters has cared.

I do think this and other matters make it less likely he will run/win in 2020.

[Bucky]

7. As with all comic book villains, it ain't over till you see the body.

Goofus in Chief is wigglier than a snake.

[ScratchCat]

8. I agree, at some point

Some adults are going to finally explain to him that there is no way out other than some arrangement that includes a resignation. I still lean towards a "no fault of my own"-type reason like a "classified health issue". He knows that given his age, HE would never see jail. But the kids. That's the wild card here - What does he do to try to save the kids.

[Cartoonist]

9. Mr. Me doesn't care about the kids

Or anyone else.

[YessirAtsaFact]

16. There's a big problem. If he resigned he would be subject to numerous criminal charges

Plus his ego would make resigning almost impossible for him.

[backscatter712]

10. IIRC, Michael Moore said there was only one question remaining to be answered.

Is Trump going to be tried as an adult?

[Johnny2X2X]

11. The GOP will sink with him

GOP leaders know that despite what Trump said, his endorsement wasn't a good thing if you were running for re-election as a Republican in 2018. Trump endorsed mostly safe GOP candidates, but of the vulnerable ones, a Trump endorsement was a kiss of death. The candidates he backed in competitive races got beaten.

A recession or a significant slow down is assured. The scandals are only going to get worse. The second the GOP decides they are better off impeaching him than running with him they'll turn on him.

[libdem4life]

12. This has been my opinion all along...the Republican Congress will be with him...

until they aren't. I'll bet money those conversations are going on now, counting those whose re-election is in peril. Donald Trump's efforts via rallies and verbally supporting candidates, was that about 75% of them lost. Mia Love was pretty vocal about it. Many requested he not come to "help".

So, I'm guessing that there is nothing to shore up the political troops...and his daily unhinged rantings are laughable.

I'm thinking Nixon visits him in his dreams...Howdy, Partner.

And the artificial injections into the economy are going to make the fall even worse. Who the tariffs don't sink, the economy will...maybe both, as it refers to the Midwest.

[Generic Brad]

18. Hell be out by March 31st

With the way he’s cracking now, there is no way he can keep himself together much longer. He will either resign, get sick, have a mental breakdown or die of natural causes soon. His lifetime scam is collapsing and with it, so will he.

[ariesgem]

19. I think he will resign so that Pence can pardon him

of his crimes. Trump knows if he loses the 2020 election, there will be no one left to pardon him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. I suspect if he steps down most of the investigations will end, as they did with Nixon.

That's an empirical observation, not a normative one.