When Mueller's investigation indicates Trump is placing the U.S. in immanent peril, what then?

[skip fox]

Won't the safety of the nation out-weigh the niceties of the legal process?

Won't he have to stop everything and announce the danger?

Is this what we have to look forward to?

[Shell_Seas]

1. BUT...but, but, but...

WHEN will that be?

AND

What will happen between now and then?

[Achilleaze]

2. That's when republicans head to their gourmet golf courses

ignoring everything, and continuing to allow russia to hack our nuclear infrastructure, our power grid, and our elections. republicans will probably step up their betrayal of America.

[Cosmocat]

3. Mueller and his partisan, far left team

Will be excoriated.

[DK504]

5. When the evidence is presented in the many legal cases against the Nacho Nazi

andnad his cabal not even Fux will be able to save his ass.

At least I hope so.

[HipChick]

4. Too late...Putin would have had all the information

he needs by then..

[NewJeffCT]

7. I don't think it's a coincidence

that after election day, several persons in Russia died under mysterious circumstances. I'm wondering if Flynn gave them a few names? Or, maybe not names, but where these people were located and/or what info they were providing - that way, he can say he didn't turn over any names.

[NCTraveler]

6. Then Mueller better get his ass to congress. nt.

[triron]

8. kick for visibility

[Cicada]

9. Nothing

Trump can shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and his supporters will cheer.

[MineralMan]

10. No. If that is the case, Mueller will present a report to

the Attorney General and the Congress. It could also be furnished to a grand jury, if one is set up by the DOJ. Whether the conclusions of the investigation are made public or not will probably depend whether they contain any classified information, which I suspect they will. He doesn't try cases.

Mueller is an investigator working for the Department of Justice. The Constitution is not a "legal nicety" in any way. Whatever is discovered by the special investigator will be handled through the proper channels. There are no work-arounds or shortcuts.

[skip fox]

11. Thank you for a thorough answer

But that leads to the next question: how quickly can the process occur that will remove the threat?

If Trump is shoveling Russia our electoral process and computer codes, for instance, what might legally stop him?

[MineralMan]

12. How quickly? Well, since the only way to remove a President

is impeachment by the House and removal by a 2/3 majority in the Senate, not very quickly at all, really. Right now, with both houses of Congress in Republican hands, maybe forever. However, It could all be handled in about a week, really, if Congress really wanted to get rid of a President. It would take that long to draw up the resolution, and vote in the House and then have a perfunctory trial and vote in the Senate.

A more likely result would be for the President to resign, after pardoning his entire cabinet and getting a signed pardon promise from the Vice President that was made public before Trump resigned. That could all happen in a single day. And might well happen if the information from the Mueller investigation was sufficiently damning.

Things can move quickly in an emergency situation, but only if the situation is so dire as to present a clear and present threat. More likely will be a long, drawn-out process that may not even being before late in 2018. The 2018 election is sort of a deadline, really. If Republicans in Congress feel threatened enough by what is coming out, they might just act to try to save their phony baloney jobs.

I don't expect any fast release of Mueller's results, though. They probably won't come this year, based on similar investigations in the past. We'd better hope for a resignation, I think.

[skip fox]

14. Sobering yet with possibility that could open like a window

and let a cool breeze flow through the house.

[misanthrope]

13. Not a damn thing is my bet.

As long as the oligarchs are safe, they don't care.