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Archae

(46,311 posts)
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:07 PM Dec 2019

Something that really concerns me about Trump...

In the past, especially in 2016, when something looks like it's not going his way, he screams about whatever it is being "rigged."
In 2016 he repeatedly said the election was "rigged," with more and more outlandish and fake "theories."
Then he actually "won" the electoral college, (to hell with the popular vote, THEY are going to dictate who wins,) suddenly all the "rigged" whining stopped.

So suppose Trump loses the impeachment, or the 2020 election, and he declares it "rigged" and refuses to leave the White House?

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Girard442

(6,066 posts)
1. The moment Trump is convicted (or defeated)...
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:12 PM
Dec 2019

...he’s just another civilian. It’s law enforcement and the military whose actions count. If they don’t support him, he’s just a broken old man.

If they do....well...they won’t.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,712 posts)
2. Let him whine all he wants...
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:12 PM
Dec 2019

If he gets thrown out of office or loses the election...he’s gone...he will leave there are people that will make sure of it.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
3. Not to worry. Trump will leave.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:21 PM
Dec 2019

Even if he camps out in the WH and barricades it. He will not be POTUS. There are more than enough Fed judges, who will swear in the next POTUS. At which point, the next POTUS will simply order Fed marshalls to excort Trump to a waiting helicopter.

So not to worry!

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
4. There are some of us here, that assume this will happen.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:28 PM
Dec 2019

The above post #3 explains how this will be handled. I worry more about those surrounding him, such as Barr, Pompeo, etc... I know these aspiring theocrats seem fairly harmless, but they have got a taste of power and they will not relinquish it easily.

MineralMan

(146,281 posts)
5. Oh, he'll leave the White House. Indeed he will.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:34 PM
Dec 2019

Once he is no longer President, whether from losing the election and a new president is inaugurated, or on being removed by the Senate, he will be escorted out of that building if he doesn't leave on his own. He won't be the President any longer. He will no longer be able to give orders to anyone. I guarantee it.

mahina

(17,637 posts)
8. Oh man, that would make me emotional too.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:56 PM
Dec 2019

Even now.

We didn’t have a tv then but I feel your hurt.

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)
11. I volunteer to help with the packing. I will start with his whole plastic family but
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 11:07 PM
Dec 2019

since I am socially responsible, I will, of course, put them in the recycling bin.

mahina

(17,637 posts)
13. Remember Al Gore's telling of looking behind his car
Sun Dec 29, 2019, 12:13 AM
Dec 2019

And seeing no others?

They stopped at a Shoney’s in Tennessee and were noticed by local press.

The next day’s AP headlines were that he was opening a Shoney’s in Tenn.

Pausing for a moment to absorb what we lost, again. Defining “we” in the sense of all creation.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
9. The moving company will carry him out just like all the other furniture
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 02:01 PM
Dec 2019

What makes you think no one can move him out? Do you think he’s going to have any staff left to defend him? Will the White House domestic staff hide him in the pantry? Will Melania throw herself over him to protect him while he kicks his heals in his tantrum? Will Ivanka?

Even if he locks himself into the hairspray laden cloud in the presidential bathroom he can’t stop them from getting him out.

kentuck

(111,069 posts)
12. Two US Marshals will escort him to his plane.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 11:10 PM
Dec 2019

And they will drop him off in NY with a limo waiting.

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