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Originally Posted by Platapus
I think there is a chance he will resign. I don't think he ever really wanted to win. If he does leave, he will want to leave on his terms. He may declare that while he is the best president in our history, the fact that everyone is against him (courts, press, congress, the people) that he feels that he really can't get anything done and that we don't deserve as awesome a president as he clearly is.
Then he can do what he wanted to do all along -- start another career as a political commentary celebrity safely blaming who ever is on office. I predict that his next reality TV show will be entitled "see, I told you so!"
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I pretty much agree with you. I think he'll resign amid much huffery and puffery, declare he's actually "wiinning" and go on to make beaucoup bucks on the speaking/TV circuit and write (or have some one write for him) book(s) about his tortured life...
The really odd thing is, he's really done all this damage to himself, needlessly. His obsession with his being investigated for collusion is baffling since he was never accused of collusion by any credible entities, certainly not by the Justice Dept.; the only people actually being investigated are those members of his campaign who had contact with Russian operatives; he could have (and should have) just let the investigation(s) play out and let his suspect cronies take their lumps. Instead, he decided it was a better tactic to try and derail the investigations; this has now led him to needlessly put himself in the position of actually being investigated for obstruction. If he'd just shut up about matter, he would not be in the bind he's created...
I think if anything is going to do him in, it won't be collusion, it will be his finances and the specter of conflict of interest. After he announced his candidacy last year, the subsequent months saw the publication of several articles in reputable and respected periodicals detailing the extent of his financial 'empire'. Among the details was the fact Trump could no longer obtain loans from any major US banks due to his very poor credit and payment history, highlighted by a number of bankruptcies to avoid payment of debts. Since he could no longer get the very large loans he needed to back his projects, he sought financing from foreign banks; the one big bank that bit was Deutsche Bank, but even they were leery of Trump. According to the articles, big money depositors of the bank quietly stepped in to offer references and vouch for Trump and helped him secure the loans. The parties who stepped in were Russian oligarchs and their connections were with the Russian VEB Bank. The potential connections with Russian money interests and Trump's holdings could set up a very sticky ethics and conflict situation for Trump. He might be faced with having to either shed completely some of his 'tainted' assets, preserving, for the moment, his tenure in office, or face what would be certainly a very hard legal battle and a public relations disaster. I think, faced with the actual possibility of having to whittle down his 'empire', he will resign...
So, in the end, his connections with Russia might well make him leave office, but it won't be because of collusion...
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