Post Jan 6 Trump Predictions?

[Septua]

I've given up on my personal abilities to predict Trump's changing strategies to overthrow the government and 2020 election results...so barring the unlikely event Congress delegitimizes the election and the unlikelihood of the Proud Boys et al. commandeering the certification process, what will Trump do after Pence declares Biden the winner?

[mikeysnot]

1. Poop his pants.

[kurtcagle]

2. Depends

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[Eyeball_Kid]

7. You have identified Trump's only skill set besides

killing and disabling people by the hundreds of thousands and leading a fascist insurrection. He needs to revise his resume.

[mikeysnot]

19. Jan 20th cannot get here fast enough.

Put me in the "I will believe he is gone from office when I see it" category...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Try to fire Pence, which of course he can't do.

Then try to fire Congress and the Supreme Court, which he can't do either. Then go back to Mierda-Loco and try to form a government in exile. Then it starts getting weird.

[mobeau69]

4. Issue pardons to all of his mobsters.

The only question is if will the try self-pardon route or resign and let pence do it.

[JHB]

6. Except... Does he think Pence is "loyal" enough to follow through?

[mobeau69]

9. Yep, pence will drop dump like a bad habbit when he thinks it's to his benefit.

Should be interesting and sickening at the same time to see the final meltdown.

[Eyeball_Kid]

12. There's no upside for Pence to issue a pardon were Trumpy-Boy to resign.

If he becomes president for a day or a week or whatever, he has no real future as he will be perceived as Trump's doormat. But if he also pardons Trumpy-Boy, his fate will be worse. Gerry Ford was lucky because all that happened to him was an election loss to Jimmy Carter. Pence will fare far worse if he plays into Trumpy-Boy's game. He'll be viewed as having no integrity, no dignity, as a candidate for any office. All through his VP job, he laid himself before the Almighty Trump and allowed himself to be used as the rug that Trump rubs his shoes off. He's played puppy dog on Trump's lap, licking his hands and face at every opportunity.

So if Trump resigns and forces the short term presidency onto Pence, he'll have to pay a price. He may not get the pardon from Pence at all. If Pence has designs for the presidency through an election, he'll have to show some gonads and send Trump begging. He'll have to show some guts. And he'll have no incentive to make a show of it and play along with Trump. There will be no quid pro quo, and if there appears to be, Trump will violate any agreement whenever it's convenient. So there can be no trust. Pence will have to cut the cord if he's to have any future success. Pence will NOT take the heroic approach.

[Eyeball_Kid]

15. The "self-pardon" route is a loser. And he can't trust Pence to lick his butt

once Pence is no longer beholden to Trump's every shart.

A self-pardon will be shot down quickly by the judiciary. It doesn't matter which Court hears the case. Further, a self-pardon can be used in a criminal trial as an act to obstruct justice, along with many of the pardons that Trump already granted.

[mobeau69]

16. Get ready Lettie. Bust his ass post haste.

[patricia92243]

5. Start a war with Iran and anything else he can do to make

the Biden presidency difficult.

[essme]

10. Yep

*This*

[mobeau69]

17. The USS Nimitz is leaving the gulf. Iran wasn't about to take his bait.

[shelshaw]

8. He will flee the country

[sop]

11. He will incite his moron mob to violence.

[essme]

14. He's already doing that

So, yeah- I think he'll get kicked off of Twitter, join Parler, and incite as much domestic violence as he can.

[Yonnie3]

13. He will Tweet as always,

perhaps after a 12 hour sulk. The rest he might do is anyone's guess.

[Septua]

18. Flee the country or self pardon or insurrection

I think his biggest fear is prosecution but have read so much argument there, I'm not sure how realistic his fear is. But he has so many narcissistic traits, who knows for certain just what it is about losing that bothers him most?

The self pardon thing could, based on what I read, be a double edged sword and possibly create more problems than it solves. Based on (again) what I read, he could go to another country with no extradition agreements and avoid legal issues. But I don't much think he wants to spend the remainder of his life in exile somewhere.

I'll be surprised if the Jan 6 protests don't go beyond peaceful...but a few or even several thousand wackos can't take over the capitol, leastways not permanently. And I don't really think there are enough wackos with the guts to attempt a take-over. I'll also be surprised if Trump actually shows his face Jan 6...very surprised. And if he isn't leading the march, who has the balls to do it?