Say tRump resigns or is Impeached.....

[FarPoint]

Will new President Vance go the route of Gerald Ford and pardon tRump? It is more likely this will be the route...and we will not have closure.

I see things coming to a head....The Minister of Chaos and Crimes will soon be out of office...Our problems will remain....I see some how that tRump is being phased out for 2026....

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Vance would have to pardon Trump.

Otherwise:

1. Lose MAGA votes
2. Have Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, Steve Bannon, etc. go after him.
3. Lose 2028 election more likely.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. MIller, Voight, and the rest would just go with the winning team.

They are slimy opportunists. They don't care who is in the chair, just that they are 'in' with the person in the chair.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Yes. NT

[Blue Full Moon]

3. Impeach him as well.

Cover up, more like Sprii Agnew.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Pardoning Trump would deprive him of the attention he requires

He won't resign, he'll just make more noise.

[AverageOldGuy]

5. Pardon not only Trump

But also Miller and the rest of the criminals.

[FarPoint]

8. I can see that.....

I sense we will suffer up to maybe even 2028.

[Jarqui]

6. Democrats will not get a 2/3rd majority to impeach

The cheeseburgers will probably prevail over Trump - stroke or death.

Vance takes over and we'll find out if Project 2025 and the oligarchs have done enough to thwart a free election.

[agingdem]

7. He'll never resign and we need to control both Houses to impeach..

it’s obvious his mental acuity is greatly diminished…we know he has undergone repeated cognitive assessments because he brags he knows a giraffe from a lion..

I suspect his handlers know his brain is dementia-mush and they don’t care .. he may “wear the crown” but they run the country so they humor him…they play to his overblown ego and his racist hate..

This is Weekend at Bernie’s but with a narcoleptic delusional psychotic revenge zombie.. he ain’t going nowhere …dead or alive..

[lonely bird]

9. So...

When he dies, his MAGAts will demand that he be embalmed and displayed under his arch like Lenin.

[Red Mountain]

14. I know you're joking......

but I guarantee you there are plenty of weirdos who would make the pilgrimage to see that.

I mean, apart from the people who would do it for fun.

[MuseRider]

15. Bad idea.

He already looks horrid.

Close up Lenin is not a sight you will forget. It is not a good sight at all.

Trump would make bad dreams forever.

[lonely bird]

16. Agreed re: bad idea

But that hasn’t stopped MAGA yet.

[AnnaLee]

10. If JD Vance ascended to the American throne

It would be worse. He would, as rapidly as possible, morph the Trump neo-Nazi tragedy into a theocratic Christian republic, like the Muslim one in Iran. This mix is a religious dictatorship run by the rich and powerful and corporations that will be dangerous to all citizens and to the world. If allowed to stand, America will enter a new experiment - the return to peasants and surfs. Not only will blacks and other minorities return to indenturation, but, this time, all workers. Women will become baby machines to feed the cheap labor producing goods for the rich and powerful. The world will move on without the United States.

[FarPoint]

13. Yes, more of the same....

hopefully the GOP Maga Congress will find their stones...do their job....hold Vance accountable?

[onenote]

11. Trump isn't resigning or being impeached or otherwise leaving office anytime soon.

There is a lot of wishful thinking on DU -- I get why, but it's just wishful thinking. Folks have been predicting/wishing for his imminent departure from office for as long as he's been in office. One day we may get our wish, but expecting it to happen anytime in the immediate future is fantasy.