Hypothetical Trump Resignation (Poll Not Included)

[Anomalocaris]

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

Not to me.

Justice is essential but not formulated for the purpose of adequately deterring malfeasance of at this level and of this consequence.    Justice as might have been conceived by framers of the constitution for presidential crimes still presupposed a sense of decency across the mainstream political spectrum and a certain noblis oblige.   Neither of these proved to be the case.

We already proved, not for the first time I might add, the social-political construct that's this country is quite susceptible to the sort of moral irresponsibility and short-sightedness that would put a character like trump into the supreme office.    We also proved the systems of two party and three government branch checks and balance we've taken so long for granted as being adequate security against truly bad governance is in reality no guaranty at all against the damages that can be done by characters like trump.

I don't think these underlying critical weaknesses can even attempted to be addressed in the foreseeable future. 

So the only deterrence against another Trumpian character putting the world at risk is reasonable assurance that such fate as would befall trump, his clan, and his hangers was too terrible for the potential gains he and they were after to have been worth the risk, and future trumps and their minions, looking back upon these fates, would be daunted from beginning to walk down his path.