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https://www.wrywingpolitics.com/the-times-drops-the-big-one-and-a-modest-proposal-for-a-deal-with-donny/Fascinating hypothesis.
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As todays Times story lays out, Trump is in (ridiculously) deep debt, with huge bills coming due in the next couple years, for which he is personally on the hook. And the tab gets bigger if he loses his much-referenced tax audit (over $100 million including penalties), and bigger still if New York and god knows how many stiffed contractors, harassed women, former employees go after him hard post the immunity of the White House.
Trump desperately and I do mean desperately needs a way out of this looming apocalypse. One way is if he wins the election. But barring that he needs something like blanket immunity from the state of New York. And that would mean striking a deal.
As Ive said before, only a hopeless idiot would enter into any deal with Trump that didnt have airtight conditions and abusive-level penalties.
So this is my proposal:
Trump agrees to concede the election. In return, the Biden administration, in union with Andrew Cuomo and Vance in New York set the following conditions for Trump and his family, (since Ivanka and the boys appear to have fat chunks of fraud splatter in their laps as well) to avoid prosecution.
The deal requires Trump to submit to a public interrogation by tax and white collar fraud attorney/prosecutors into any and all of his business dealings, from the time he took over from his father through to today. This would include everything involving the Russians, the Saudis, the Qataris, the Turks, and any other thug-ocracy hes been trolling for loose change.
It also stipulates the deal is voided the second Trump lies, misstates or mischaracterizes any pertinent fact.
Why public?
Because the story of Trump and the foundational lies of Trumpism has to be told. It has to be admitted to and confessed by Trump himself. History has to be written by the winners from the mouth of the loser.
Gellmans post-election hellscape is based on the premise that we will never know. That the fog and stench of Trumpism and Federalist Society Bill Barr-ism is desaigned to prevent anything from ever being truly knowable. (Such is Putins game in Russia.)
I believe Adam Schiff for one will eloquently argue that accepting anything less than a full peeling of the Trump myth simply enables a smarter, less louche and preposterous Trump from picking up the pieces and starting all over again. Even the most oblivious and deficient Trumper has to be presented with stark evidence that theyve been conned again.
Thirty nine percent will ignore the Times tax blockbuster and/or dismiss it as fake news, and Biden still needs a solid victory in Florida election night and a landslide overall to neuter any plausible claim Trump and Barr might present.
But the basis is now visibly forming to squeeze Trump into a corner from which his only escape is a Walk of Shame, to reference the entirely apt Game of Thrones.
fierywoman
(7,641 posts)Sogo
(4,967 posts)Biden would be tarnished with even the appearance of "dealing" with this criminal.
The old adage applies: You lie down with dogs, you're gonna get fleas....
erronis
(14,955 posts)Not to name any other repuglicons, but...
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)1. Every Judge appointed my tRump needs to resign within 90 days.
2. Mitch McConnell must relinquish his Seat
3. Republicans must agree to Statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.
4. Republicans must agree on an Amendment to abolish the EV.
Don't like the deal repukes? Each week will bring two more demands.
If they want to go for "a good of the Country" excuse then step up.
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)joe biden doesnt want to go down as the new gerald ford.
there will be a perp walk. and joe cant do anything about the personal lawsuits anyway.
absurd idea.
onenote
(42,383 posts)safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)Worked before.
Joinfortmill
(14,247 posts)But I believe he sold government secrets. So he must pay the price for that.