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His liberate tweet storm was more of a test to see what reaction would follow. He knows he will not win a free and fair election in November. He also knows he is in great jeopardy as a private citizen. His corruption will be exposed.
First he will of course try and cheat as much as possible in the election, but will fail.
Next he will call the election invalid due to the left illegal votes.
Next he will take it to the Supreme Court, but even a packed court will not go this far.
He will then assume powers he does not have and call the Court corrupt and their ruling has no power. For he alone, as President, has supreme power in the Pandemic crisis and any election is invalid.
Here is where his crazy supporters take to the streets with their AR-15s, etc. and all hell breaks loose.
This Will not end peacefully.....
tman
(983 posts)Winning the first battle will make it significantly easier to win the battles that come after.
You are forgetting that at his core, Trump is a coward. He will cut and run when his time is up.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)He's a total weenie in confrontations. He'll be whisked away in a helicopter from the WH lawn as the cameras and huge crowds he always wanted to claim are gathered elsewhere for someone else.
The trouble this cruel, vengeful man could cause has been all along -- and right now, and likely will be before the actual time. He has to be raging at us right now and wanting to hurt.
But notably for a very erratic, disordered man, he's strikingly consistent in refusing to use his power to authorize action to control the pandemic. And what he's not doing is falling consistently in line with what McConnell & co. in the senate are not doing.
Stuart G
(38,416 posts)..When Biden wins, and Trump doesn't go, then President Biden will order the secret service to physically carry him and his family out. There will be a warning, and another warning, if he still doesn't go (I think he will without these problems) then the order will be given and he is carried out physically.
..Trump will go on his own because he needs to get away from this. Everyone will urge him to go, and he will go. If he goes quietly, then at least that will prove he (at that moment) cares about this country more than himself.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a few people he trusts more than others, making carrying him out unnecessary. I also don't think being carried, or muscled by cops in any way, fits Trump's self image. He'd walk to avoid any indignity.
Those worried about what he would do should look around right now. People who are not waving flaming swords in his defense are dying.
lark
(23,091 posts)I 100% expect them to destroy the constitution for drumpf, they've already disregarded it numerous times for right wing causes and will do it again. They will not protect us from him doing what they actually want, destroy liberal America and implement a fascist state.
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)2naSalit
(86,536 posts)Could just send him on a golfing week at MAGA-laga and then bring the plane back, evict his shit from the WH and change the locks. As he gets all cozy at home, send in US Marshals, arrest him and get on with the criminal trials.
ashredux
(2,604 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)pwb
(11,261 posts).
Nancy Waterman
(6,407 posts)This is a dress rehearsal for calling out his Storm Troopers to create chaos at election time. All he has to do is talk about freedom and how their rights are being taken away and they are hooked.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Republicans in power are doing. Trump's nomination was a rebellion against them, just like the Tea Party, but just like the TP they turned Trump into their tool a long time ago. Agree they would encourage him to rabble-rouse his base as much as possible. And that Trump's supporters are potentially very dangerous, but history says he'd need help.
If Trump could get his rabble to take to the streets by himself he would have long ago when he was frightened and raging. He, and Fox and other RW subversives, have suggested they should often enough, and all they got was a few murders and attempted murders by crazies. Which for all but Trump would have been the goal.
For those using Trump like a badly trained dancing bear, stoking civil unrest and unease is a standard fascistic tactic setting the stage for even more ruthless means of taking power. Anxious people shift conservative and look for a strong leader to protect them. I've believed for some while that that's why the Republican leadership, determined to find a way to keep power, have refused even the most basic gun control strongly supported by their voters. It would fit their pattern.
If they decided it was time to get the hot-air demographic into the streets to cause disruptions,... I wouldn't put anything past them and their big "the-enemy-of-my-enemy" in Moscow, or past Trump's eager-to-riot populist base with real, very well organized leadership.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)mokawanis
(4,440 posts)he'll leave and spend the rest of his days screeching and squawking on twitter.
quickesst
(6,280 posts).... or he will be escorted out. End of story.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)onenote
(42,694 posts)dware
(12,363 posts)How many more are we going to have?
This is like the 100th thread on this ridiculous theory.
Bottom line is that on Jan. 20, 2021, the Mango Menace is no longer the POTUS, he will leave, willingly or unwillingly, but leave he will.
OneNote has it right, there should be a forum dedicated to this nonsense.
ashredux
(2,604 posts)dware
(12,363 posts)He can't stop the elections, those are state run, not federally run.
sanatanadharma
(3,699 posts)I expect that Trump will not do as previous presidents; he will not retire quietly and avoid commenting upon the next administration, as has been the custom for past presidents.
He will noisily tweet crap and encourage continuing sedition.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)He will call his "followers" or loyalists to protest everything that Joe Biden does as President via Twitter, remote control.
I had hoped once Trump lost his platform, this morass would die down. I don't think so anymore.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Spend the rest of his life in prison. Seriously.
But there would be hits out on the judge and jurors. I don't know the solution but do know he is not a king and has broken laws.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)The secret service knows that they will be taking orders from President Biden at 1201pm on Jan 20th. And trump can screech all he wants as hes led out of the White House under armed escort.
Now, his voters can still be pissed and get their guns and go out in the streets. Their right, so whatever...no one will care unless they start shooting. But that would be a bad idea on their part.
dware
(12,363 posts)are a bunch of cowards who would just fold at the sight of their firearms, but what they fail to take into consideration is that millions of us are combat veterans who have seen actual combat, unlike most of then, who own and know how to handle firearms.
If they think that they intimidate us, then they're in for a very rude surprise, although I don't think it will come down to that, most will stay in their parents basement playing some ridiculous video game like Medal of Honor or something.
DFW
(54,344 posts)He will just repeat his line that he accomplished more in 3 years than Obama did in 8, say, "the country way lucky to have me, since I did so much good," and then leave with Fox Noise lamenting his departure as if it were a worse calamity than the crash of 1929.
He will leave, touting himself as a hero who selflessly gave the country enough of his time to MAGA. Fox Noise will try to convince the country that the junk yard he left behind was really the Garden of Eden, and that it won't REALLY be a junk yard until ten minutes after Joe Biden is sworn in. And you know what? Forty per cent of American voters will believe it.