Trump is always welcome to resign

Amen!

Why should the dems be so concerned about not dividing the country further when republicans have done all they can to sow the seeds of division? Those SOBs are even discussing the possibility of a civil war! There is no negotiating with those people. Those deplorables must be driven into the dirt never to raise their heads again.

Excise the cancerous Trump admin so that the country can heal. Furthermore, if Trump isn't convicted by the senate and removed from office, dem presidential candidates should be asked whether or not they will pardon Trump if they were elected president. The only correct answer to that question is Hell No!

The wheels have already come off the Trump train, now they are about to come off the Republican bus.

If my suspicions are correct, Pete Sessions and many other republicans will have to explain their receipt of Russian money. It would certainly help explain why republicans are fighting so hard to deny Russian influence in the 2016 Trump campaign.

Republicans are all for accountability as long as some one else is being held accountable.

Republicans that get on the wrong side of Trump should threaten to declare as independents and run for their seats. As independents, they will siphon off enough votes that a Democrat could win which might be enough of a deterrent to prevent Trump and the party from screwing over them.

It should be obvious that Trump is currying favor with foreign leaders so as to expand his business opportunities in(to) those countries. Trump has to be bent out of shape by his impending impeachment. Not only will the impeachment stain his name from a historical perspective, impeachment and removal from office is likely to result in him spending time in prison. Either way, his "brand" is severely tarnished and not likely to command the respect and value it would have were he not to be impeached.

The name Trump will become an American History trivia question i.e. Who was the 3rd president to be impeached? In fact, once he's out of office, I want him to be so embarrassed that he will keep his head down and never tweet again. Let him fade into the sunset forever without a peep or a squeek.

You don't think that's exactly why he was brought on in the first place, to get Trump to lay off bashing CNN by putting one of his mouthpieces on the air?

Irrespective of why he was brought on, one of the benefits of him being on CNN is that he will have to defend, in real time, his positions in front of millions of people that know a lie when they see / hear it. He will either resign or start dealing with the truth.

Trump knows that if a Democrat takes over the White house in 2021, that he's going to prison. He will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening.

Jail them. It will be a teaching moment.

I have also heard that fining those who defy subpoenas was also an option. If someone is jailed by the HOR for defying a subpoena, must they be released at the end of that session of congress? What about fines? If the fine isn't paid by the end of the session, does the fine go away?

The common beneficiary of all Trump's foreign policy initiatives is Russia. Why is that?

Yovanovitch appears to be a very resolute figure that is not to be messed with: strong as a lion and tough as a knot.

They got their supreme court justices so now they should STFU.

At this point, any city that allows a Trump rally without getting it's money upfront deserves to be stiffed.

Trump to Republicans: I Don't Want Impeachment on my Resume

Within a year or two after he is no longer in office, he will be able to add Convicted Criminal to his resume.

Ukraine to Review Criminal Case Into Hunter Biden's Company

Ukraine! If you're listening. Within the next 2 years, the next president will likely be a democrat and you will have some splaining to do.

MBS Says War with Iran Would Gut World Economy

IOW, please protect us from Iran.

It never ceases to amaze me that people/countries think that they won't get any push back on the things that they do. The US and S.A. thought that they could put Iran in a economic squeeze and keep them there until the Iranian economy collapsed or the Iranians came to their senses. I guess it never occurred to them that Iran would push back; that they more threatened the Iranians felt, the more desperate they would become; desperate enough to bomb the S. A. oil fields.

S. A. (i.e. MBS) has miscalculated. They thought that they had Trump in their pocket; and for a limited time they did. But now that Trump is likely to be impeached, they (and other world leaders) have to rethink their position vis-a-vis the U.S. S.A. best move would be to get Trump to do something quickly before the HOR gets any further along into the impeachment process.

Don't be surprised if, in the very near future, more oil tankers in the gulf are attacked and blame laid at the feet of Iran.

Trump will not resign UNLESS he is given assurances that he will not be prosecuted for his crimes. The only person that can guarantee that he won't be prosecuted is Mike Pence. Will Pence do for Trump what Ford did for Nixon? I don't think so. Pence would love to be POTUS but I think he would like to be president for more than a year. If he pardoned Trump, the public would turn on him just as they turned on Ford. Furthermore, Pence would not have the enthusiastic support of Trump supporters and they wouldn't turn out for him as they turned out for Trump.

If we had punished Nixon for his treason before he was even elected it would have completely changed the course or our history.

I don't think that would have been enough. People ignorant of history (as is Trump) will repeat the same things that got their predecessors in trouble. The trick is to do as the framers of the constitution did: build into the structure of government enough checks and balances to make it difficult to be corrupt and subvert the will of the people.

Over the years, our cowardly congress critters have given more and more of their authority to the executive i.e. ability to declare war, emergency powers, trade authority, etc. Congress, at the first opportunity, should resciend their authorities granted to the executive. Also, they need to start crafting laws that give the executive so much discretion in how the law is implemented e.g. the whistle blower statue that is so much in the news requires that whistle blowers make their complaint through the executive branch. If the executive branch is the target of the whistle blower, the executive has an incentive not to have the whistle blowers complaint never see the light of day. Change the law so that a whistle blower can make their complaint to any branch of government. The receiving branch can then forward the complaint to the inspector general's office and monitor the progress of the complaint as it progresses through the inspector's general office.

Senate rules also need to change to reduce the power of the majority leader and to eliminate the filibuster. Senators should not be able to hide from taking tough votes.

Finally, as Trump is demonstrating, there is not enough separation between the Whitehouse and the DOJ. Perhaps the DOJ should be as independent as the Fed.

Mother Earth: So that's where I put it!