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Can anyone think of ANYTHING that Mueller could find Trump did that, even with (Original Post) Atticus Feb 2018 OP
No. tazkcmo Feb 2018 #1
It all depends on the November election. TomSlick Feb 2018 #2
Yes. If polls look bad for GOPers in summer, something could happen. Hoyt Feb 2018 #10
My memory from Watergate (it was sometime ago), TomSlick Feb 2018 #11
Implement the sanctions against Russia Jarqui Feb 2018 #3
Maybe if Mueller found out that trump was meeting secretly Iahotdog Feb 2018 #4
I believe so. NCTraveler Feb 2018 #5
agree 100% brettdale Feb 2018 #8
The problem is the definition of 'concrete' ... anything SHORT of an unassailable RECORDING of Trump mr_lebowski Feb 2018 #13
If the nightly news can report it as described... NCTraveler Feb 2018 #14
The Edwin Edwards Test jayschool2013 Feb 2018 #6
Nope brettdale Feb 2018 #7
russian money laundering going back 25 years for starters beachbum bob Feb 2018 #9
Depends on what the FBI finds on congress. Corgigal Feb 2018 #12

TomSlick

(11,100 posts)
2. It all depends on the November election.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:49 PM
Feb 2018

If the GOP lose enough seats in Congress that they start to see the Orange Abomination as a political liability, they will drop him like a bad habit. It's a balancing issue. At this point, the GOP is more worried about its mindless base. If there is real political carnage this November, they will become more worried about the damage being done to the party.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
10. Yes. If polls look bad for GOPers in summer, something could happen.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:39 PM
Feb 2018

They’d come up with some way out for trump, like health.

TomSlick

(11,100 posts)
11. My memory from Watergate (it was sometime ago),
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:46 PM
Feb 2018

is that things started going south for Tricky Dick when the GOP lost a special election that it "couldn't lose." Again, my memory is that it was clear that Nixon cost the GOP the election. The movement toward abandoning Nixon started at that point.

Nixon was doing far-and-away better in the polls at the time than the Orange Abomination is now. The primary goal of any politician is re-election. If the GOP politicians start to fear than the OA is a drag on their re-election chances, they will not hesitate to throw him under the bus.

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
3. Implement the sanctions against Russia
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:54 PM
Feb 2018

That could mess up Russia stealing the midterms for them



I was a young boy during the Cuban missile crisis. The notion that the party in power in the US could sit on their hands while the Russians screwed with the 2016 election is so bizarre and treasonous, I feel that the past year has been totally surreal.

Iahotdog

(119 posts)
4. Maybe if Mueller found out that trump was meeting secretly
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:56 PM
Feb 2018

with Schumer and Pelosi to pass single payer.lol

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
5. I believe so.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:00 PM
Feb 2018

But it will have to be concrete.

If either of these hit the nightly news it’s over:

Mueller has delivered his findings to congress and Trumps campaign was working directly with the Kremlin through his children and other aides.

Mueller delivered his findings to congress and there is concrete evidence that Trump sent the Kremlin a message that he would take action to benefit them as President if they helped him win.

Either one and he is done. That is where the bar has been set.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
13. The problem is the definition of 'concrete' ... anything SHORT of an unassailable RECORDING of Trump
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:10 PM
Feb 2018

HIMSELF speaking to Putin (or someone extremely close to him) about a quid pro quo ... your help in exchange for my doing something of value to you when I'm elected ... and the knuckle-draggers will insist it's just politically-motivated manufactured "evidence" that should not be trusted and/or 'not actually illegal'.

The GOP leadership, in order to keep their base placated, will INSIST that only the absolutely most blatant evidence against Trump PERSONALLY ... is worthy of any sort of consideration ... and there very well might not be ANY blatant evidence of Trump personally colluding with Russians ... in fact I think its likely that at the very best Mueller MIGHT find evidence that he green-lighted others to do so on his behalf. Which will not be enough for the knuckle-draggers. Even though they'd accept 1/1,000,000 as strong of evidence against Obama or a Clinton as iron-clad proof ...

jayschool2013

(2,312 posts)
6. The Edwin Edwards Test
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:00 PM
Feb 2018

"The only way ... is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
12. Depends on what the FBI finds on congress.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:50 PM
Feb 2018

If Trump needs to be out of the White House to save the republic, I believe they will discuss with certain members on why they need to get on board.

They need to respect our investigational unit. If they don't, they might go down too.

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