With his days in office numbered, here's what Trump may try to do

[mfcorey1]

(CNN)President Donald Trump is on his way out of the White House, but he's not done just yet. After nearly four years of relentless law-bending and norm-smashing, Trump now enters his final two-plus months in office entirely unrestrained. He won't have to face the voters again, so he can indulge his basest instincts for payback and self-preservation. Get ready for a Constitutional stress test like we've never seen before.

Here are three main areas where Trump could still wreak havoc with the law before he leaves office:
Pardons. It won't be anything new for Trump to issue a rash of pardons in his final weeks in office, right up to his very last day. Prior presidents commonly have issued pardons during their final days in office, including some historically dubious ones. On his final day as president, for example, President Bill Clinton pardoned his own half-brother Roger Clinton and the fugitive billionaire financier Marc Rich (which prompted a federal criminal investigation, but ultimately no charges).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/opinions/what-trump-may-try-to-do-honig/index.html

[Iliyah]

1. Confirmed by Mary Trump and Michael Cohen . . ..

while the GOP do nothing, and my guess his supporters will approve. Talk about how selfish these people are. They just don't care.

[Chainfire]

2. Here is what Mary said about it

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[Mike 03]

3. This is a fascinating article.

As for saying he’ll run in 2024, that’s just a face-saving exercise. It’s a way of distracting him from the fact that he’s probably going to prison. But the worst thing Donald’s looking at isn’t financial difficulties or the prospect of jail. It’s becoming irrelevant. I don’t think he would ever recover from that.

Thanks for the link.

[katmondoo]

4. And there won't be any Trump Tower in Moscow

[DeminPennswoods]

6. Being Mr Irrelevent will be a punishment worse

than death for him.

My bet is that he partners with Chris Ruddy to bring Ruddy's Newsmax channel, OANN or a combination of both to compete with the other cable news outlets to appeal to the looniest of the rw'ers.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Anyone who would partner with the orange menace

is a fool. Or insane. Or both.

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Ruddy, who founded Newsmax,

is a Trump bff.

[BComplex]

9. Let 'em join with him. Everything trump touches dies.

They will go under, sure as I'm typing this.

[duforsure]

5. He'll go after trying to destroy the FBI and CIA,

Like he's done to the post office , and with his DNI flunky he installed. He has to try to destroy investigations into him and others , and destroy evidence, which will fail. They have too much on him, and so do other countries which he can't do anything about. I think the walls are about to start caving in on him and on many others as it gets exposed. I think trump could get forced out , maybe sooner than we think.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. It doesn't matter now. The career bureaucracy can safely

ignore him.

[doc03]

10. I think he will go back on the rally circuit next week spreading hate and inciting violence plus

the things mentioned in the OP. He will try and burn the country down as he leaves.

[Arazi]

11. While these are terrible, they aren't catastrophic. Starting a war with Iran is a fear

My fear is #Traitor will start something so terrible that Biden will be inexorably drawn into it, like a war with Iran.

The pandemic and the economic catastrophes are awful enough. #Traitor's rage is going to be so incandescent all bets are off.

Firings and pardons are baked into what's going to happen. Count on those. What worries me more is the rage-filled impulsive shit #Traitor's going to do as he smolders along the way to January 20th

[Chainfire]

12. He better keep his temper in check or he may become the first to be impeached

and rejected through the 25th amendment.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.