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In reply to the discussion: Breaking from Bloomberg: Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)that will allow him to keep his illegally acquired bribes and extortion money. In exchange for being allowed to resign without an admission of guilt and without criminal charges or a presidential pardon, he will claim that he was politically naive which led to him being duped by the Russian Mob--and he will roll over and inform on each and every member of the Russian mob with whom he and his family every had contact.
How do I know? Because he has turned FBI informant before.
I don't care if Putin has golden showers video footage of Trump. Trump will dump Putin and all the rest to save his sorry skin. And since he has Secret Service protection for life, there will be nothing the Russian mob can do about it. Serves them right for spending their money and time on a worthless sack of shit like Donald Trump.
Trump will have to pardon or protect Americans involved in the plots, because they can be prosecuted by the DOJ and encouraged to rat him out. But Russian nationals can not be prosecuted and therefore they will have no incentive to talk. So, he will throw them all under the bus.
When it is all over, there will have to a villain--and it is going to be Putin and Russia and not Trump.