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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 08:39 AM May 2017

President...Steven Mnuchin?

Trump is toast. Pence is just as guilty as Trump, so he is on his way out, too. The Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan knew that Putin owned Trump, so he can't be the next president. Ditto for Sen. Mitch. Secretary of State Tillerson, aka Putin's BFF? Are you kidding? He is probably the mastermind of the whole Trump-Putin affair. So, who is next in line after Secretary of State? Secretary of the Treasury. That makes hedge fund manager, film producer, Frank-Dodd hating Steven Mnuchin the man most likely to be our next POTS.

Move over Big Oil. Big Banking is about to get back in the saddle again.

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President...Steven Mnuchin? (Original Post) McCamy Taylor May 2017 OP
Orin Hatch would be after Paul Ryan NightWatcher May 2017 #1
Seriously? I hate to admit it, but I would prefer Hatch to anyone in Trump's cabinet. McCamy Taylor May 2017 #2
Then Pelosi could appoint Hillary as VP and resign... world wide wally May 2017 #5
The issue is BumRushDaShow May 2017 #3
Not quite true metalbot May 2017 #4
You wrote what I posted BumRushDaShow May 2017 #6

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
2. Seriously? I hate to admit it, but I would prefer Hatch to anyone in Trump's cabinet.
Fri May 19, 2017, 08:42 AM
May 2017

Of course, if they delay impeachment until after the midterms, Nancy Pelosi is president.

world wide wally

(21,718 posts)
5. Then Pelosi could appoint Hillary as VP and resign...
Fri May 19, 2017, 09:06 AM
May 2017

Thus making the person who got the most votes President.
See how democracy works?

BumRushDaShow

(127,260 posts)
3. The issue is
Fri May 19, 2017, 08:47 AM
May 2017

If a President resigned, the VP would become Prez and would immediately appoint a new VP, who would be next in line (assuming a successful confirmation by the Senate) if the new Prez had to resign, and so on. That line of succession is assuming that both your top officials were out of office at the same time (or close enough not to be able to appoint a replacement in some reasonable amount of time).

metalbot

(1,058 posts)
4. Not quite true
Fri May 19, 2017, 09:01 AM
May 2017

If a president resigned, the VP would become president.

The new president would NOMINATE a new VP, but that pick would need to be confirmed by both houses. That process would likely take months. I can't imagine a republican who would be amenable to both the moderate and the fringe in the House. More interesting might be what would happen if the resignation of the president happened after Democrats had taken control of the House. At that point, they could simply refuse to confirm ANYONE, and the new Speaker would be next in line.

BumRushDaShow

(127,260 posts)
6. You wrote what I posted
Fri May 19, 2017, 09:39 AM
May 2017

and assuming this happened before the 2018 election, the GOP would make sure to get the process done asap - i.e., they would pull out every trick in the book to thwart any Democratic obstruction and will only need a majority (vs supermajority) to confirm (note the Senate has the closer break out between parties than the House and that would be the one needing the certainty for success - by party line).

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