Would a "Checkers" speech save Trump?

[dinq_92882]

Even though I don't believe he has it in him, I'm sure he has aides broaching the topic that a "Checkers" speech could change the tide. I believe an authentic speech could change the tide for him. However, it would require him to be humbled and to tell the truth. Two things that will never happen...

[MedusaX]

1. Save Trump? We are not dealing with a single impropriety...

There would be ZERO benefit afforded to 'we, the people' by keeping *45 around 1second longer than is absolutely necessary...

Unless of course people want to spend the next few decades living in
an all white, evangelical, 3rd world Kleptocracy

Subject to martial law and reinstatement of the Sedition Act just so
*45 can imprison all who dare oppose the almighty dick-tater ...

It is far more important to find a way
to SAVE the People & the Constitution FROM *45....

Who gives a fuck about saving him /his job
Just so he can continue to wreak havoc...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Why the hell would we want to save him?

[yurbud]

15. not "want" but contingency planning. If he made peace with deep state...

the media could make him "presidential" over night--even if nothing about him has changed.

I don't think he's a reliable enough tool to leave in place though. He might not be able to stick to his talking points like Baby Bush did, especially during his middle of the night tweets.

[vlyons]

3. Trump is incapable of expressing humility

even if he tried, he would say something stupid and dwell on his electoral college win. But hey, let him try. The video clips of his better lies and stupidities would be roundly ridiculed. Donald Trump is a pathelogical liar.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Nixon was a LOT

more intelligent than Trump can EVER aspire to be.

With Trump, there's a new issue every day ... and sometimes more. Nixon was also better at subterfuge.

I don't mean either statement to be a compliment in any way. I loathed Nixon with every fiber of my being. But my loathing for Trump has surpassed even that.

[WinkyDink]

8. Nixon on his worst day would never have been the traitor Trump is.

[dalton99a]

14. No truer words

[pnwmom]

5. A Checkers speech didn't save Nixon from his inevitable downfall. n/t

[Nitram]

17. I saved his political career until he made the mistake of taping his crimes.

[WinkyDink]

6. About what? That he's just been a humble money-launderer and quisling for Russians? If

Trump told the truth he'd be sent to Leavenworth.

I have no idea what your point is, or what analogy you think you're making is.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Nope. Trump could hold a national address to the Nation,

and describe the tear-soaked pillow of his ten-year-old son, Barron, due to the unrelenting and hostile portrayal of his father on television on hundreds of stations, on the front page of NYC papers that he has to see when he goes to school, etc., and the "Checkers" effect would not happen.

[WinkyDink]

9. Treason has that effect on people.

[luvMIdog]

10. You can make an asshole mistake and get forgiven if that mistake was not your norm, but when

you have been an asshole your entire life and now much of it is in print and on video.. no one is going to forget it except the completely brainwashed & those of very low intelligence.

[jimlup]

11. Not possible Trump is deranged

He thinks he is a God-king. He has not a clue.

[Progressive dog]

12. That has to be a joke.

If Trump tells the whole truth he will be pretending to show remorse at his sentencing.

[hatrack]

13. Nixon came across as phony, unctuous and smarmy in the Checkers Speech . . .

You really think Trump can rise to that standard?

[Nitram]

18. Saved his ass, though. Enough people believed him.

[Nitram]

16. I'd love to see him try. The only people who would believe a word he said would be the Deplorables.

[BigmanPigman]

19. I'd rather have him read the "I resign" speech and save the country instead.

[dogknob]

20. LOL! I'm watching this in San Clemente with someone who actually met Checkers.

[dogknob]

21. Oops. It was Checkers II or III