Trump loses...what incentive for Pence to pardon him?

[Politicalgolfer]

People have speculated when Trump loses, he will resign & have Pence pardon any future guilty vetdicts. But what incentive would Pence have? It would kill any attempts by him to run in the future because the animal base won't be enough! In other words, the resignation & the deal should have already been done so that Pence would be the Repub nominee. Don is going to end up with his bare ass blowing in the wind😊

[BannonsLiver]

1. Trump will be a dominant force in the GOP for years to come

Pence likely knows that.

[VMA131Marine]

11. There will always be the true believers in the cult

but if Trump loses he will be persona non grata like W basically is, probably moreso. Is he really going to keep going around the country doing rallies if he gets voted out? Seems unlikely.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

2. I don't think he can pardon him for state crimes,

also his sexual crimes when he wasn't president?

[TreasonousBastard]

5. No he can't. And NY, Nevada, NJ, and a few others will crawl up his fat ass.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. No need to pardon Trump. Nixon's pardon was due to Ford thinking it would stop obsessive...

hounding of Nixon and heal the country.

Some may think throwing Trump under the bus is what the country needs now.

And Pence isn't going anywhere.

[LiberalFighter]

19. Trump needs to be prosecuted as a warning to anyone in future thinking of doing the same.

[JI7]

4. I have been wondering about Pence and whether Trump and or Putin has something

on him.

In the beginning many thought Pence's reasons for what he was doing was based on his own ambitions. That he would be president if Trump were to leave .

But we know this hasn't happened and it's unlikely Pence will ever be a candidate for president himself unless we think about the horrible possibility that Trump stays in office and Pence runs in 2024. But his chances to actually become president get much lower.

I wonder if "mother" ever caught Pence in some act and that's why her can't be in alone with another women that isn't related to him.

[AleksS]

9. Guarantee it.

"I wonder if "mother" ever caught Pence in some act and that's why her can't be in alone with another women that isn't related to him."

I guarantee it. The more sanctimonious they are publicly, the more dirty laundry privately. I'm sure in his days as a talk radio guy he was as dirty as Limbaugh or trump ever were.

[SayItLoud]

6. I have often thought that Pence might claim his

pound of flesh. But, tRUMP is never going to resign without a blanket pardon for himself, and the tRUMPcrime family, signed sealed and delivered.

But, those who stuck around thinking tRUMP would also take care of them....well the tRUMP bus will get them and it will not even phase tRUMP.

[AleksS]

7. He's in an interesting dilemma.

Trumps enmity can definitely hurt him, but so will pardoning Trump.

I think he'll do a lot of political calculus, and I feel like it would land on the side of pardoning trump.

Trump will have the power to sink a primary candidate for years to come, is my bet. And a candidate has to run the gauntlet of the primaries before they even think of the GE.

[still_one]

8. The only incentive for Pence to pardon him, would be for trump to resign before the election, and

trump becomes president and would run as the republican candidate

That isn't going to happen though

It has gone too far

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Don't you mean PENCE becomes president and would run

as the Republican candidate?

[still_one]

18. Yes, thanks

[LuvJoesPartner]

10. What if Pence is "Anonymous?"

[Dan]

12. And the question - if Pence pardons Trump

Does it expose Pence to any legal liability? Was the pardon for corrupt purposes?

[mcar]

13. "People have speculated?"

[kacekwl]

14. Pence is a spineless lapdog.

Does what he's told.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. I don't believe Trump is capable of considering that he might

actually face legal consequences for anything. He will spend every waking hour after November 3 saying the election was stolen from him, and trying to persuade his base to riot and burn down things.

There might be a distant possibility that Jared and Ivanka will get through to him that his time in office is over, and that he should consider moving to somewhere there's no extradition treaty, but only a distant possibility.

[RhodeIslandOne]

17. Pence's entire future hangs on his loyalty to Rump

Governor AIDS Outbreak was out of national politics when Don the Con gave him a gift.

[fescuerescue]

20. He will be prosecuted as harshly and vigorously as George W Bush

Possibly sent to the Hague just like Bush was.

I know I know. It's different this time. Just like the last 2 times with Nixon and Bush were also different.