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Aristus

(72,478 posts) Mon Sep 28, 2020, 11:35 AM Sep 2020

After months of responding to posts with "He's NEVER going to resign!", [View all]

I'm starting to turn around on the possibility.

If he waits until Inauguration Day, there will be agents posted in every major airport on the Eastern Seaboard. They'll have him in custody before you can blink.

Right now, he has the advantage of time to prepare a skedaddle to a country with no U.S. extradition treaty. He could be spirited away in the night with relative ease.

I wonder if that has occurred to him yet...

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After months of responding to posts with "He's NEVER going to resign!", [View all] Aristus Sep 2020 OP

I've long thought he might flee the country if the shit ever really hit the fan... First Speaker Sep 2020 #1

Well...he's already fallen from a great height. Aristus Sep 2020 #3

My nightmare scenario hvn_nbr_2 Sep 2020 #34

Oh, yes, it has occurred to him. MineralMan Sep 2020 #2

I can't see that any of those countries would want him, except maybe Miguelito Loveless Sep 2020 #33

Russia might want to keep him around as a propaganda tool. Lars39 Sep 2020 #49

what's to keep him from.... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #4

What's to keep him? Aristus Sep 2020 #5

and WHO would issue that order? getagrip_already Sep 2020 #12

And where is he going to get the gold and crates of cash? Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #17

the us treasury... they have lots of it... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #20

The president doesn't have the authority to access it. Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #29

does mnuchin? potus has the ultimate authority to do anything i the exec branch or military.... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #35

No, Mnuchin Does Not ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #42

that is a very old simplistic view I fear... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #43

An Insult Is All You've Got? ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #50

what insult? getagrip_already Sep 2020 #51

More likely he leaves on his own plane or a Russian oligarch's plane. Captain Zero Sep 2020 #28

What's to keep him is the fact that the guys up in the sharp end of AF-1 are Air Force officers. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #9

yes, if he were still potus .... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #13

"Just how do you think the military works anyway?" A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #22

the pilots and crew are soldiers - and they follow orders getagrip_already Sep 2020 #24

"It's what they do." A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #38

not with him.. just in parallel.... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #44

Didn't the House EndlessWire Sep 2020 #30

dunno, but what effect does the house introducing a bill.. getagrip_already Sep 2020 #37

Wow, you EndlessWire Sep 2020 #41

not giving up.... being realistic getagrip_already Sep 2020 #45

He may have to . . . Tom Traubert Sep 2020 #6

trump could simply pardon himself..... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #14

I'm not buying it. Tom Traubert Sep 2020 #18

but not if scotus blocked that as well.... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #26

If you're suggesting Trump will leave everything behind and move to Russia Tom Traubert Sep 2020 #32

I hope you are right, but roberts is just one vote, and we only have 3..... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #36

Nope. Still is never going to happen. Jirel Sep 2020 #7

Mike Pence may want to renegotiate C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #8

Putin might just consider him used and damaged goods on Nov. 4th. 5X Sep 2020 #10

He is not resigning. LisaL Sep 2020 #11

Never going to happen. People don't realize narcacsism isn't just a trait it is a disorder Statistical Sep 2020 #15

But Trump isn't rich. LisaL Sep 2020 #19

He may have to . . . Tom Traubert Sep 2020 #16

do we have a treaty w dubai? ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #21

he wouldn't go to an arab country...... getagrip_already Sep 2020 #27

indonesia then? ihas2stinkyfeet Sep 2020 #31

Not because if his taxes Johnny2X2X Sep 2020 #23

I think he'll just kill himself gristy Sep 2020 #25

For all the talk of "Narcissists won't do this or narcissists won't do that", Aristus Sep 2020 #40

So which agents posted all rusty fender Sep 2020 #39

yup, won't have charges ready to go on the 20th. Amishman Sep 2020 #48

He's never going to resign onenote Sep 2020 #46

He won't flee .. but will get pence to pardon him. Le Roi de Pot Sep 2020 #47

You had it correct all along Awsi Dooger Sep 2020 #52