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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/the-political-walls-are-closing-in-on-donald-trump.htmlThe Political Walls Are Closing In On Donald Trump
Already, Republicans are talking about getting their court nominee through and then jettisoning the president.
Joy-Ann Reid
04.01.17 12:01 AM ET
Not 100 days into the Trump presidency, one thing is abundantly clear: it is completely unsustainable as it is operating today.
There are even rumblings in the seams of Washington that Trump may not last the summer, including Republican consultant Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman, reportedly telling clients to prepare for President Pence.
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Will this series of inferences ever be conclusively proved? Who knows. But the Trump presidency is permanently tainted by the implications of their clear use of Russian propaganda to batter Hillary Clinton and her campaign. Trumps legitimacy will forever be questioned because of his personal enthusiasm for WikiLeaks peddling of Russia-hacked emails.
Even if he survives, Trumps leadership in Washington is in tatters. The Freedom Caucus doesnt fear him. Whats left of the Republican moderates dont respect him. The Democrats will have nothing to do with him. And his fair weather friend, Paul Ryan, is a disaster as speaker of the House who is fighting harder for tax cuts for the top one percent than for anything in the Trump campaign agenda and making enemies of the Breitbartians in the process. The Senate Intelligence Committee is showing signs of conducting a real investigation into Trumpgate, and there are fewer and fewer Devin Nunes professing a willingness to destroy themselves on Trumps behalf. Republican partisans are openly advising the GOP-led Senate to cram through their Supreme Court nominee and then wash their hands of Donald J. Trump forever.
Barring some dramatic changeand we should seriously worry about what Trump and Bannon might cook up in that regardthis only goes in one direction, and thats further downhill.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Actually everyone connected with this farce of a presidency can get garbage canned.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)We need to tell our Dem Senators to stiffen their spines and filibuster.
wiggs
(7,817 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Then get them to really investigate all this crap!
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Republicans in Congress to bulldoze the walls down. We really do need to take Congress in "18."
Langkous
(36 posts)Connect the longtime players behind the scenes
Check out this link
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/01/02/will-kissinger-be-a-private-bridge-between-trump-and-putin/
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Maybe this is the deal the GOP made with Putin. Hold their nose, and take Trump as president.
Court justice confirmed.
Remove unpopular president.
Install controllable executive.
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)Theyll pull the trigger: Robert Reich explains how the GOP is playing Trump until they can dump him
patricia92243
(12,601 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,457 posts)Stumbling block for Pence should Drumpf have to step aside... it will just b a continuation of the scandal
zentrum
(9,865 posts)...Russian investigations will lose steam and focus.
Russia probably wants Pence at this point.
But all the same Trumpisms will still be in place. It will still be anti-female, racist, for the privatization of public assets, a rich-serving tax code, the end of regulation, the defunding of science and art.
And the press will fall in line because Pence is boring and doesn't sell ad-time.
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)what if it's definitively determined Russia stole the election with the help of dt and his minions. What then? They can't remain in office. I know this is unchartered waters so there is no answer...yet.
calimary
(81,466 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,444 posts)the tax overhaul (notably the "corporate" one but also for their 1% friends). But if they think the healthcare thing was "complicated", they are in for a rude awakening when it comes to the tax code. So they may try to re-implement the Shrub tax cuts as a starting point and go from there without their "dear leader".
Thunderbeast
(3,419 posts)Call it the Thunderbeast proposal to get out of this mess:
The Democrats and 21 patriotic GOP representatives sign on to this proposal.
1. The House elects Mitt Romney as Speaker. The Speaker IS NOT required to be a sitting House member.
2. The coalition impeaches both Trump an Pence.
3. The Senate, including four patriotic GOP Senators vote to Convict.
4. The Sitting Speaker is sworn in as President Romney.
5. President Romney put Wesley Clark forward as Vice President. Congress vonfirms.
6. New cabinet is sworn in as competent caretaker government.
7. New Attorney General prosecutes all election - related crimes. Convictions send people to jail. The wrinkle to this point is that Trump could issue pardons to himself and others. Other sanctions may need to be explored.
MarvinGardens
(779 posts)Brave-newworld
(10 posts)That Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House and Causer of More Problems, will be made President Ryan. This will ensure that he will cause even more said problems. Paul Ryan is, of course, 3rd in line.