"A constitutional scholar explains the...way Trump could circumvent the 2020 election..."
good read... interview with Laurence Tribe
podcast https://www.salon.com/2017/02/08/listen-the-chauncey-devega-show/
"...While Donald Trump and his defenders are celebrating Mueller’s report, Trump was not in fact exonerated for his blatant efforts to obstruct justice. Key questions also remain about the Trump campaign’s contact with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign, as well as those of the campaign’s surrogates and allies. Moving forward, Congress, investigative reporters and other guardians of American democracy must continue to explore whether this president is actually trying to serve the best interests of the United States or is instead privileging his own narrow self-interested goals...
...At least arguably, Donald Trump’s public conduct — some of which has likely been criminal — justifies his being removal from office. These include publicly encouraging a hostile foreign power to interfere in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of installing him in office, followed by Trump’s denials that the interference even happened, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Trump continues to impede any efforts to protect the United States from similar attacks in the future. Trump also lied about his business dealings with Russia during the presidential campaign, and as president publicly admitted to obstructing justice after he fired FBI Director James Comey in an effort to shut down the Russia investigation.
But ultimately, politics is not about what is always right and just but rather what is practical and expedient...
we have to get to the next time. I keep worrying that when we get to the 2020 presidential election, unless it is an absolute landslide, Trump is certainly going to say that he did not legitimately lose. Trump is going to concoct a national emergency and God knows what else. I’m not among those who think that the United States will have a smooth transition to whoever is president after Trump if he loses in 2020. I’m not at all sure. I think the United States and the American people are really in a position of enormous peril with Donald Trump.
What would happen if Trump refuses to step down and leave the White House if so ordered? That scenario is often discussed but rarely detailed.
I am starting a research project examining that question. This is like looking into the face of Armageddon. I simply cannot tell you right now what it would look like. I do not think that Donald Trump would simply hunker down and say, “The Joint Chiefs are going to have to arrest me.” Trump would be a little more subtle than that, stupid though he is. I think Donald Trump would declare a national emergency. He would find an excuse for one. If it looked like Trump was going to lose the 2020 election, he would declare a national emergency as well..."
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