Once again, are calls for Trump's resignation too much to ask?

[ThoughtCriminal]

Countless GOP Senators and Representatives and even a few Democrats called on President Clinton to resign - over a consensual sex act. They knew he wouldn't, but that was not the point.

What does Trump have to do for Democrats to start calling for him to resign? Surely doing NOTHING when his pal Putin is paying cash to get American Servicemen murdered would be somewhere light-years beyond the threshold.

Make Republicans defend this behavior. If they want to say Trump wasn't briefed, ask them why they are not demanding the resignations of the White House officials that held that information back. Make them testify under oath. And if they want to block that, make them explain why.

Full. Court. Press. 24/7

[Laelth]

1. Hear! Hear! k&r n/t

-Laelth

[captain queeg]

2. We are still a long way from getting any rethug support for that

But maybe if another 100k die they might change their minds. Only if they see the electorate wants it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. We could out Trump tomorrow.

It would take a 1/2 dozen Republicans to vote; Schmur and Pelosi that they will vote to ousr this Prick.

[napi21]

4. You & I know about Putin paying a bounty for US Service Men, but FIRST the Dems must make that

knowledge very publicly well known. Then they can campaign to have him resign. After it's well known, they'll have the support of our military & their families, at the least, & likely many more than that. We all know he won't do that, but it will insure he WON'T WIN REELECTION!

[BComplex]

5. I totally agree, ThoughtCriminal.

Democrats need to be on every news program 24/7 asking those questions, and, like you say "full.court.press!"
Yes!

[Sogo]

6. Damn right!

[Xolodno]

7. I don't think you need calls for that....in fact, he may actually dig his heels in.

He's probably going to resign shortly after the election. He's too proud to admit defeat and will just say he was screwed over by the media and never trumpers....but if it weren't for that, he actually won. He'll hand it over to Pence to spare him going to the inauguration (which will be larger than his) and shaking Biden's hand. He's that fucking petty.

[BigmanPigman]

8. That seems like the more likely scenario.

[smirkymonkey]

9. K&R

[Under The Radar]

10. This all could have been avoided and Trump long gone...

If Mike Bloomberg had taken my advice and offered Trump $5 Billion to quit.

[sprinkleeninow]

11. Mb that's still doable.

Mike?

Mike?...

[gratuitous]

12. It wasn't just politicians calling for Clinton to resign

There were any number of media outlets, including many "respectable" ones that called on Clinton to resign. There's been no concomitant calls for Trump to resign. I'd ask those folks why they wanted Clinton's resignation, but haven't called on Trump to resign. Is an extramarital affair more serious than national security? The lives of the troops? Our global alliances?

[lunasun]

13. Not at all! Why is trump still in the WH ? How can he still be president ? Everything trump has and

hasn’t done, how can republicans face voters? They should be packing him up and figuring out how to save the country from anymore of trump now.
Remind people that after the house impeachment, Republican Congress is what kept trump @1600
Democrats already called for him to be impeached earlier during his first term and he should be gone already if not for R senate acquittal

[nolabear]

14. I'm beyond shocked at what he's gotten away with.

If something like that can’t be gotten rid of under a coat of tar and feathers our government does not work.

[lunasun]

18. + tarred and feathered and run out of DC on a rail ..I had envisioned that a few years ago :(

[crickets]

15. No, calls for his resignation are not too much to ask at all.

It doesn't matter that he'll likely ignore them. That isn't the point. There should be constant, relentless calls for his resignation. It's the right thing to do.

[Poiuyt]

16. Chris Hayes just called for trump's resignation

He made a pretty strong case too:

We are in the midst of one of the worst governing failures in American history. When all is said and done, it may end up being the worst since the Civil War. There is no country on earth, this far into the pandemic, that has bungled it this badly. And we need leadership, and a leader, to get us out of this. But we do not have that.
We have Donald Trump.

And from the very first day, this has been a terrible presidency. From the first moment, from the first speech. It has been terrible. From his lawlessness, to his incompetence, what he has done to immigrants and immigrant children. What happened during Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, which was a canary in a coal mine.

Or putting his personal interests ahead of the country, which is what he was impeached for. The constant attacks on the rule of law. The disgusting, despicable bigotry....and on and on and on.

But we have reached a new depth as coronavirus cases race back up and he ignored warnings from his public health experts. That resulted in tens of thousands of preventable deaths. And we are looking at tens of thousands of more. Right now we are seeing our chance as Americans to get back to some semblance of normalcy, the way other countries have, with work and school and even sports, we are seeing it slip away because of Donald Trump.

We are seeing it because of the incompetance of a man who took a huge inheretence and squandered it on stupid, glitzy investments and bankrupted his companies six times because he was not up to the task.

If this presidency had creditors, the viruses resurgence this week would have been a default. Only it is not his creditors who are suffering, it is us. It is the people who could have survived this virus.. It is friends. It is loved ones. In nursing homes. And the people on the front lines. And the ones working in meatpacking plants. And the ones serving time in prison. It is everyone who has lost a job and every small business that has shut down.

Things are falling apart because of him.

And Republicans know it.

But all they do is complain about his tone or they send some passive-aggressive tweets while professing their loyalty.

The problem is not his tone. There is not going to be some course correction. Donald Trump does not learn. He is not going to get good at this. He is not going to change. He has failed, definitively. And it is an urgent matter of public health, of public safety at this moment, for the President, Donald Trump, to resign.

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/06/chris-hayes-says-what-we-are-all-thinking

[duforsure]

17. Every day they allow him to stay in office

A lot more will be getting exposed , dragging their chances down to zero with him of remaining in office, and they then face justice. Calls for his resignation will only get larger, much , much larger. The only way trump will leave is to get a full pardon from Pence, which will backfire on them both. They both know they will lose this election as a lot more gets out exposing them both, and worry about justice being served against them. Barr is also looking at prison soon too, and with many others.

[chriscan64]

19. The cabinet should have went 25th amendment week one.

They should have scrapped the notion that "maybe this can work" when he berated his staff because the daily briefing "had too many words" and had to be dumbed down to the level of a Marmaduke cartoon. The republicans must have caught the Trump disease where you only act in your self interest but are too stupid to even do that right.

On the particular issue of the Russian bounties, the republicans are hiding behind, "maybe it isn't true". I agree totally with the OP here, Democrats need to dig in and find out what is true, all of it. Is the story itself true, did it make it to the daily briefing? Was this or anything else withheld from the daily briefing for no other reason than the president's illiteracy or disdain for information that he does not like? All of this needs to be aired publicly. I want to see two examples of a presidential daily briefing book, one from a previous president and one from this idiot. Even if every word is redacted, is it 41 pages single spaced or a freakin' facebook meme printed on poster board?

[Cognitive_Resonance]

20. Starting to think there's a fair chance for a near-term pardon deal to get him off the stage. nt