I had a strange and scary thought; after trump loses he defects to Russia to avoid prison.

[jg10003]

trump knows that he will be indicted by SDNY on January 21st. So after the inauguration of a democratic president on January 20 he gets on his jet and flies to Moscow. Putin gives him a luxurious retirement in exchange for information on nuclear secrets, the CIA, our Nato allies, etc.

Farfetched? Maybe. But these days anything is possible.

[EveHammond13]

1. scarier: he won't need to defect to Russia to avoid prison

[SunSeeker]

61. Yep. nt

[The Blue Flower]

2. He's already given that info to his master

And I don't think Master would care if his puppet lived or died at that point.

[RKP5637]

6. Good point. None give a F about tRump ... n/t

[pandr32]

12. I agree with you

[ChazInAz]

50. He'd be useful.

Putin would give him a palatial dacha in some remote place like Archangelsk with limited communication to the outside world, save for regular broadcasts of propaganda. Then he'd die when no one was looking.

[LakeArenal]

3. Oh I hope he goes. Save us so much money,time and trouble

He’d be Putin’s lapdog.

[Capperdan]

56. And take his kids too

Bye bye scumbags

[LakeArenal]

60. And their Siberian Husky.

[hlthe2b]

4. He'd go to UAE. The Emirates, like his good buds, the Saudis, have no extradition

and the affluence/opulence afforded is far more in keeping than stark Moscow or even Putin's Black Sea resort.

[deurbano]

14. Yeah, he'd want somewhere he could play golf 24/7... at one of his branded clubs.

<<FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Trump sons open Dubai golf course, praise U.S. ally

DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were guests of honor at the opening of a Trump-branded golf course in Dubai on Saturday, the first Trump property project launched since their father’s inauguration....>>


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-dubai-golf-idUSKBN15X0OU

[RKP5637]

5. Given the sh** that goes on anymore, probably not so farfetched IMO. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

7. That would be enough evidence

for most people to realize that he always was a Russian asset and that anything that he touched should be reversed and disinfected.

That is why I would not consider it scary/

[sagesnow]

8. Don't give him any ideas! :) n/t

[Hoyt]

9. Let him go. Unfortunately, no jury will convict him here. There'll always be one or

more white wingers to hang any jury, even if there is indisputable evidence.

[onecaliberal]

10. I do not think it's far fetched in the least.

[onenote]

52. I think its about as likely as pigs flying.

Just saying that nothing seems far fetched anymore doesn't mean that things still can be far fetched.

[Downtown Hound]

11. Let him go

But I have a hunch the Russians are not going to want him.

[not_the_one]

39. My bet is on Saudi Arabia

Jared has already made all the arrangements.

Putin would as soon poison him as look at him. turdface is already almost past his "sell by" date with Putin. Losing the election would be that "expired" date.

[mitch96]

13. I think he will go to an English speaking country with no extradition if he does jump ship.

Too lazy to learn Russian...
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[Hekate]

15. Not at all. He's a feral, cornered rat who knows no other system than the one he's manipulated ...

...all his life.

And, here's a thought: once Trump is out of office, his usefulness to Vlad will be over.

[smirkymonkey]

16. I have an even scarier thought: He won't lose and if he does, he won't leave.

I would be thrilled if he lost and defected to Russia. Sooner or later, they would get rid of him.

[Laffy Kat]

34. I keep thinking he can't be very healthy.

Surely he'll succumb to heart disease or dementia before too long.

[smirkymonkey]

37. That is the best case scenario.

I am really hoping with all my heart that ends up being the case. Of course his cult will still find some way to make it our fault, but that is the best way I see of getting out of having this turn into a complete shitshow.

[world wide wally]

17. Russia already knows more than what's his face...

No future threat.... Already done.

[malaise]

18. If it takes that log he'll be gone by November 4

He won't stick around

[Me.]

19. Fine

then we'll close all his bank accounts, seize all his properties, arrest his kids and he can live there, poor, in Snowden limbo-land. It will become his version of hell as putin will no longer have any use for him.

[rampartc]

26. what we will find is that his property has been mortgaged to the water line or below

and that all of the cash has been safely loaded onto pallets and is on its way to grand cayman and beyond.

[Ilsa]

20. Maybe, and he can lesve and disappear as long as he

Lesves snd disappears. Twitter can shut off the traitor's account.

[Hortensis]

21. :) Definitely agree with "Fine" and "He can disappear."

If only. He's probably told Putin whatever he's wanted to know already, and reports of very bad memory and empty head are quite credible.

I don't care what would happen to him once gone. Putin could still use him for propaganda and would likely make sure he's maintained in the style to which he's accustomed, just maybe in Murmansk.

Best, though, if he defected it might just act a bit like electroshock therapy on a fair chunk of the not totally demented right.

[mahina]

22. I'll take it.

[Arkansas Granny]

23. I don't think Russia will want him then. He's already served his purpose.

[tblue37]

24. Russia wouldn't accept him. He is merely a useful idiot. Once he is no longer useful, they'll

ditch him. Their state TV already mocks him.

[TexasTowelie]

28. Glad that someone else came to that conclusion before me. nt

[localroger]

32. This.

They won't want him once he's outlived his usefulness.

[JI7]

35. yes they would. Putin would use him to spread propaganda

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. He will NEVER think that he's going to prison,

so no, he won't go anywhere.

And chances are he will never see the inside of a prison, anyway. Richard Nixon didn't.

[Cartoonist]

27. He will declare himself president in exile

And he will still have his supporters.

[Progressive Jones]

42. He can be hunted by the US intelligence community.

I'm sure they'd love for Trump to resist arrest.

[TEB]

29. Possible

But then maybe vlad will give him a penthouse and people do fall it seems from balconies in Russia.

[Dan]

30. Drones, anyone?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. I'm not too worried.

As far as I'm concerned Putin can have him. I doubt he has any useful information to give the Russians because he doesn't take briefings from the IC, and they probably aren't telling him anything important anyhow because they know he's a huge security risk.

[Laffy Kat]

33. Kind of makes you wonder what the CIA may have planned for him.

If he becomes a threat to national security. Just sayin'

[in2herbs]

36. So will his presidential pension be paid in rubles?? Where will the Secret Service assigned

to an ex-president reside? It wouldn't surprise me if the occupier of the WH sneaks off during the 2020 swearing in ceremony but I always thought he'd head for a private island. Maybe that's why he's freaking out! Maybe he was planning on retiring to Epstein's island but that won't be possible now and he doesn't know where to go.

[kskiska]

47. He'd never attend a swearing-in ceremony for anyone else

[Talitha]

38. "... Putin gives him a luxurious retirement in exchange for information."

The only things Putin would offer Shitler are poison or a 20 story window.

[ooky]

40. Wherever it is Captain Bonespurs may very well already be building his new home there.

If he loses I doubt that coward will still be in the country on inauguration day.

[Progressive Jones]

41. SDNY can have an arrest warrant ready for the second Trump's

successor takes the oath of office. He leaves the inauguration in handcuffs.

[ProudLib72]

43. If he takes his entire family with him, then good

Polonium sandwiches for everyone! No blood on our hands. Liberals will still hate Russia, and MAGAts will begin to hate Russia again. I see this as a win win.

[madville]

44. He'll have a pardon in his pocket

protecting him from any federal prosecution. He'll either pardon himself or resign on January 19th and have Pence issue him a pardon.

The SDNY are federal prosecutors that work for AG Barr, they are probably limited somewhat until the administration changes.

[scarytomcat]

45. if he loses he will probably flee the day after the election

no sense waiting until January

[Dem_4_Life]

46. Works for me let him go!

Save us $$ and hopefully we won't have to see or hear from him.

[TryLogic]

48. I have thought about him running to Russia to escape prison, but...

I was forgetting about the information he could take with him. Scary!!

I'm sure he would like Russia. I have never seen a person of color on any TV footage from Russia.

[jmowreader]

49. No way

Trump ran for president because “favors” of the kind only an American president can bestow are what he’s using to pay off his substantial debt to the Russian mafia.

If Trump loses and runs to Russia, the Russian mob will kill him and his entire family within 24 hours of his arrival, and the deaths will be horrific.

[ehrnst]

51. There will likely be subpoenas waiting for him in SDNY. (nt)

[sdfernando]

53. I don't think pootie poot would have him

his usefulness would be over. Maybe pootie would (secretly) allow the plane into Russian airspace...only to publicly shoot it down because it violated Russia's airspace. That seems more likely to me.

[dawg day]

54. I'd be okay with that--

I doubt Putin would treat him very well once there's no use in him.

He could hole up in a dank little Moscow flat, and send out plaintive tweets begging Melania or one of his kids to visit (which they all ignore).

[Tommy_Carcetti]

55. My hope is that in such a case, a "luxurious retirement" means a Khrushchyovka apartment in Norilsk.

[bucolic_frolic]

57. Putin's going to rely on Donald Trump's memory?

[somaticexperiencing]

58. I'll buy him a ticket anytime he wants to go.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

59. You mean repatriates? n/t

[Grins]

62. That presumes...

... that he has read or knows any “information on nuclear secrets, the CIA, our Nato allies, etc.”

He is, after all, a moron.

And think of it this way - If that should come to pass there won’t be a Republican in the White House for more than a decade, and the top tier R’s in the Congress also gone. WIN!

[JohnnyRingo]

63. I'll top that

I think he's emptying Fort Knox first and flying the gold to Moscow for him and Putin to split. Where's James Bond when we need him?

Let's hope we at least get Air Force One back.

[fescuerescue]

64. The only thing farfetched is

the notion that Trump faces a threat of jail.

This is the same fantasy that we had for Bush Jr. (Remember all the talk about possibly being arrested by International entities? I do)

Trump is guilty. But we don't prosecute Presidents once they are out of office. Or in office (apparently)

That die was cast with Nixon.

[Tipperary]

65. No way.

The turd would be terrified to live anywhere else.

[moonscape]

66. Putin already knows more about the US than 45 does n/t

[Bradical79]

67. But he doesn't read intellegence reports...

And when he does know something, he spills the beans pretty quickly already. This is a President whose own intellegence agencies will actively try to keep him uninformed about their operations because they suspect he's either compromised, or too stupid to keep it to himself.

[Bradical79]

68. He thought we sold jets to Norway that don't exist

I think his value as an intellegence asset is extremely limited.

[DFW]

69. Then he can get accreditation for Putin's UN delegation

Any time he is threatened with arrest, he pulls out his little ID and repeats the famous scene fron Lethal Weapon 2, shouting, „Diplomatic Immunity!“

[treestar]

70. Not sure he's smart enough to recall information

that would be useful to Vlad.

[BlueMississippi]

71. Putin probably cannot stand the buffoon

Trump may be looking at Pollonium-210 drink or a Novichok massage.