If the Dems had at least clawed back the Senate there would have been a chance of that, but I think Trump is going to make a pretty effective machine out of the legislature, and one of the first things they are going to do with it is destroy the judiciary as an independent institution. There’s no check
Gifts (like hotel business) from foreign states are explicitly verboten. And maybe if he were incorporated Trump could claim that such transfers weren’t going to him, as such, but he’s a sole proprieter. That’s why we can’t just look up his tax filings.
I don’t think it’s impossible. We can already see weird faultlines between the Trump administration and the conventional Republicans in Congress, and he’s already unpopular enough the GOP might view him as a liability, plus I am sure it has crossed Paul Ryan’s mind that Pence would be easier to work with than Trump. Also wondering if Congressional Republicans feel nervous about Bannon/Trump cultivating a new crop of more Breitbartian candidates and sweeping them out in the 2018 primaries. The very business conflicts that make Trump politically vulnerable are going to give him a lot of cash to feed into campaigns, though I don’t know how that shakes out legally.
He’s apparently already started dumping Christie’s people, so smart republicans might figure out what’s up. I just don’t think the party is particularly smart.
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Gotta impeach Pence too. And then rural America.
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If the Dems had at least clawed back the Senate there would have been a chance of that, but I think Trump is going to make a pretty effective machine out of the legislature, and one of the first things they are going to do with it is destroy the judiciary as an independent institution. There’s no check
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Plus there’s Pence like Ramanan S says. He might scare me more than Trump.
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Ramanan S I’m up for that. Apparently it’s pretty easy to get them to do stupid stuff.
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This is going to embolden stupid people around the world.
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I’m hoping for some convictions on some of the legal actions against him. Then maybe he’ll either have to resign or, yes, be impeached.
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I’m finding a remarkably pervasive attitude online that being President will shelter him from prosecution.
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Well, it certainly would have been better if some of those legal actions had derailed his candidacy before now.
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I think he’s got two court cases coming up before he’s sworn in. What happens if he’s convicted in either of those?
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Kelvin Green I believe he can be impeached, but with Republican majorities in the House and Senate, impeachment may be difficult.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
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Remember when I asked about impeachment?
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poised-to-violate-constitution-his-first-day-in-office-george-w-bushs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.shskzjoed
Gifts (like hotel business) from foreign states are explicitly verboten. And maybe if he were incorporated Trump could claim that such transfers weren’t going to him, as such, but he’s a sole proprieter. That’s why we can’t just look up his tax filings.
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They aren’t going to impeach him. (Just like the electoral colleges aren’t going to switch their vote to Hillary.)
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I don’t think it’s impossible. We can already see weird faultlines between the Trump administration and the conventional Republicans in Congress, and he’s already unpopular enough the GOP might view him as a liability, plus I am sure it has crossed Paul Ryan’s mind that Pence would be easier to work with than Trump. Also wondering if Congressional Republicans feel nervous about Bannon/Trump cultivating a new crop of more Breitbartian candidates and sweeping them out in the 2018 primaries. The very business conflicts that make Trump politically vulnerable are going to give him a lot of cash to feed into campaigns, though I don’t know how that shakes out legally.
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He’s apparently already started dumping Christie’s people, so smart republicans might figure out what’s up. I just don’t think the party is particularly smart.
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