What real choice does Trump have?

[guillaumeb]

If he admitted to his many crimes, the red-hatted Trump cultists would experience severe mental trauma.


If he admitted to his many crimes, his GOP enablers would be revealed to be the fools and apologists that we know they are.


If he admitted to his many crimes, FOX personalities would be exposed as what they really are. And it is not journalists.


If he admitted to his many crimes, the US corporate controlled media might have to stop pretending that Trump's lies are in any way simply another possibility. And the media loves to present right wing lies as a counterpart to the truth.


If he admitted to his many crimes, Trump would exhibit integrity that he has never shown in his life.

So what real choice does he have at this point?

[dchill]

1. You don't want me to say it out loud, do you?

[guillaumeb]

4. He cannot tell the truth, to himself or his followers.

it would destroy the illusion he has crafted.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Moral cowardice precludes everything you wrote about...

mostly, we might be moving toward bringing Trump to heel.

[guillaumeb]

5. Yes, it does.

These politicians have no integrity. It is all about power.

[Mike 03]

3. This is why I'm starting to wonder if resignation is a possibility.

His ego won't allow him to be voted out or subjected to our legal system. He could conceivably resign and save face by making himself into a martyr. He also has his "empire" to consider. He could resign, avoid the stigma of impeachment, avoid (in his mind at least) many legal difficulties, and still have his Trump Organization.

I don't say resignation is likely; however, from a narcissist's point of view, it seems the best option I can see.

EDIT: One more likely possibility is that in a fit of anger he takes down someone in his inner circle, and they all collapse together. That could still lead to resignation, or to immediate impeachment that even Republicans can get behind. I still have doubts he would face that scenario, though, rather than resign.

[guillaumeb]

6. Perhaps if he was assured of a pardon by Pence.

But he still has the various state level actions to worry about.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Problem is I think the nutbar really wants to be our strongman like Putin.

The freak might actually try to take the presidency for life.

[dchill]

9. You know he's long been thinking about it.

He's downright envious of Xi and Kim Jong Un, and has said so. The creep.

[dchill]

8. Your second possibility is virtually a certainty.

He's already making noises about Pence and Pompeo. In fact, he's almost confessing...

[NCLefty]

10. He could choose to be a better fucking person, at any time now... *waiting... waiting...*

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:p

[guillaumeb]

11. I am not certain that he has the ability, or the desire, to change. eom