With the conviction of Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of Michael Cohen (as well as five other guilty pleas from Trump campaign operatives), it is clear that Donald Trump is a crook.
Cohen claims to have information that proves Trump knew about and encouraged Russian hacking of Americans. From everything else we know about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyers and hackers, it is clear that the Trump campaign conspired with Russian spies to steal the 2016 election.
The Republican Party seems bound and determined to go down with the Trump ship, but there is a way out if the rats desert the sinking ship.
It has long been totally obvious that Trump is a feeble, deranged old man. He proves it every day with his unhinged rants and tweets, his never-ending golf vacations and the infantile prattle he spouts at his Nuremberg-style campaign rallies.
The Republican leadership needs to round up the cabinet, read them the riot act, and then go to Kelly and demand that Trump resign due to "serious medical issues." Trump doesn't have to admit that he's senile or mentally incompetent. He can claim that he has nephritis, or atherosclerosis, or preeclampsia (yeah, he can't have that, be he sure as hell doesn't know it).
If Trump refuses to resign, the cabinet should Twenty-Five him for
mental incompetence. If they don't have the guts, the Republican Congress should threaten the ultimate: no, not impeachment proceedings. Releasing Trump's tax returns.
Like Al Capone, Trump's tax evasion and money laundering will be his undoing. He will be charged with thousands of crimes in federal and state courts, and will never get out from under an avalanche of indictments.
Because if the Republicans continue to condone the behavior a president who lies all day and every day, stole an election, is a puppet of a Russian dictator, repeatedly assaulted women sexually, they are likely to lose big in November.
If Trump resigns before November, his
successor can pardon him and all his cronies for all their crimes. The Mueller
investigation will end. Our long national nightmare will be over. Republicans will look like they stood up to a petty and senile tyrant, and will have a decent shot at holding on to Congress.
But if they let Trump stay in office, Republicans may lose both the House and the Senate, and then Democrats will be in charge. Trump will try to use executive pardons to cover up his crimes, and then he will be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. There will be hearings 24/7 in the House and Senate, and hundreds of Republican cabinet members and office holders will be tainted by their connections to Trump.
It will make the Watergate hearings look like Romper Room.
At that point the country will be in great danger of exploding, and with the Russians, Iranians and Chinese all trying to sabotage our democracy on social media, who knows what craziness they'll whip right-wing nutjobs into.
The Republicans can save this country -- and themselves -- if they dump Trump right now.
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