If it gets bad enough....do you think Repuke leaders will pressure Trump to resign?

[Coventina]

I mean, if transcripts emerge of damning phone calls to Putin and MBS, or similar type things come out...

Could it possibly get to a point where someone will tell him, "Look, we will not support you in a re-election campaign. We are openly going to turn against you unless you resign."

Just wondering if it could get to a point where they will put the party over Trump.

We all know they don't care about the country, but maybe they would do something if they thought it would save the party?

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[leftstreet]

1. Yes. But he won't. Maybe they'll have to offer him a buyout?

lol I'm actually kinda serious though

[Freethinker65]

6. Yep.

He will allowed to keep all the campaign money from stupid MAGA donors and given an NDA to sign to resign from office and retire from making public statements.

He will be allowed his freedom because of a bipartisan agreement not to further divide the country as "we" need time to heal...or some such bullshit.

[leftstreet]

8. I could see that

He'd spin it as a WIN!!

[LovingA2andMI]

12. The Buyout will be in the form of a Pardon...

Then, maybe, he might resign.

[Lock him up.]

17. A pardon will not immune him from State-Law indictments.

Neither him, nor his business.

I don't think he will resign, although I hope I'm wrong.

[elleng]

2. IF it gets bad enough,

as there is precedent for such, but how bad is BAD for the spineless and misguided repugs these days? Hard to know.

[NightWatcher]

3. They'll impeach by secret ballot.

They'll tell Pelosi to give them something to vote for in a week and then they'll toss his ass.

[Doodley]

4. Yes, because Trump cannot recover from this. The dam has broken and more and more

information in many different aspects is already coming out about Trump's treachery. This is the beginning of the end, and the rats will jump before going down with the ship.

[ginnyinWI]

5. Yes they certainly will.

It has always been about self interest!

[Generic Brad]

7. Yes. And he will pressure them with threats to expose his blackmail on them

None of these guys are a Captain Kirk. They are truly in a No Win scenario.

[mopinko]

9. well if they hang together, they wont hang separately.

yeah, they have great interest in limiting the amount of dirty laundry hung out on the washington mall.

they will take off like a herd of deer.

[DrToast]

10. Oh god yes. I suspect they'll start discussing that internally next week.

They have no true loyalty to him. If it starts harming them, and it will if they keep trying to defend this nonsense, they will cut him loose.

[RDANGELO]

11. His base still loves him.

The only way it could happen is if Pence secretly agrees to pardon him after he wins election. But Trump has to be thoroughly convinced that his political career is over. That will be hard to do since he is so delusional, and it would destroy his monumental ego.

[Lock him up.]

19. Pardon will not immune him from State-Law indictments.

Neither him, or his business.

[RDANGELO]

20. You have a point there.

[GulfCoast66]

13. Not a chance in hell. We still have a tight election to win next year.

These fuckers are in it till the end. They see the demographics. If the lose now they are screwed going forward.

[dweller]

14. i'll mix this metaphor once again...

when the info damns them, the repugs will chew his leg off
to escape from the trap ...



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[cynatnite]

15. tRump's base is a huge share of the repuke party...

Repuke leaders aren't going to want to risk their senate majority if at all possible. At the very least they want to minimize the potential damage.

tRump doesn't react well to this kind of pressure, IMO. He's going to look at his rabid base every time.

The only way I see him resigning is him losing a portion of his base and the repuke leaders offer him enough of an incentive to leave and tRump will not go quietly into the night either.

In the end, I don't think he'll resign.

[LeftInTX]

16. The senate would probably vote to convict rather than pressure him

He doesn't listen to anyone and he will get even. If he's convicted, then he's out of office and won't have much retaliatory leverage.

But the odds are very, very small they will vote to convict.

[NCLefty]

18. Yes, but they'll only do it to save their party & if they think the base also sees this.

[DFW]

21. I doubt it

They have welded themselves to Trumppence's ship, and they will do anything to prevent it from sinking.

There could be a surprise surge for the primary effort of someone like Mark Sanford, however. If huge anonymous money suddenly starts pouring into the PAC/campaign of one or more of Trump's so-far-insignificant primary challengers, that is a far better way of removing him than voting in the Senate to forcibly remove him from office, and thus opening themselves to electoral challenges of treason to their party. If Trump loses in the primaries, however, they can point to themselves and say, "who? me? We have to respect the will of the voters, but I was loyal to our President!" When the president is a disgusting Republican sleaze bag, they are especially likely to say "our" president (anyone ever notice that?).