RE: Hypothetical Trump Resignation (Poll Not Included)
September 30, 2019 at 4:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2019 at 4:56 pm by mordant.)
(September 30, 2019 at 4:44 pm)wyzas Wrote:(September 30, 2019 at 3:03 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Suppose for a brief moment that we live in a fantasy world in which Donald Trump is offered a deal, a la Nixon/Ford. He agrees to resign in return for either a pardon, or a guarantee of immunity from prosecution once he's out.
Would this be acceptable to most anti-Trump Americans, or would it be more just for him to be forced out and have to face the music for crimes committed while in office?
Boru
If it happens this will most likely be the terms. I doubt the majority dems will want to have criminal trials against a president. It wouldn't say much for the US system of government or it's people.
Hopefully the immunity offered would have strict limitations and conditions.
Having a trial for a former president doesn't necessarily say that we persecute those out of power. That's only true if it's really persecution. Trump would not be prosecuted for ideology, but for actual crimes. I think it would say something unsavory about us if we don't seek justice, and thereby disavow everything Trump has made us associated with in the world community.
Nixon should have been prosecuted as well. But apart from an op ed column he at least had the good grace to slink away into much-deserved ignominy and disgrace. Trump won't do that. He's an exhibitionist, and he'll be all over TV fomenting ... whatever it is he foments. Nixon had shame; Trump won't.
