I think the impeachment process will go swiftly if they can't negotiate his resignation.
This is not the Clinton impeachment over trivialities. Trump actually IS an existential threat to the national security of the United States.
Even the Republicans know it. They're like rats on a sinking ship, probably glad it's sinking pretty much in the harbor rather than in the open sea.
Resignation would be something like a plea bargain; it would leave him uncharged, and able to go back to running the Trump brand, which is all he really wanted before his head swelled up and he thought being President would be like running a real estate business where he could even lie about the height of his buildings and call that "creative promotion."
Trump doesn't care about his historical legacy, he's never read a whole book in his life. If I were Trump I'd take a deal and get back on the job of developing Havana.
I'm sure his real estate and gambling-interest partners wish he'd stayed the heck out of government. Hillary would have completed normalization of political relations with Cuba anyway!
More importantly, though, the sooner the Republican Congress can get him out of the way, the sooner they can begin to run away from Trump in preparation for next year's midterms. If Trump is still in office well into or completely through that midterm campaign, the GOP will lose both Houses.
But to answer your question tersely, my old friend, why? Because he has never learned anything outside his narrow little business world. He's never even tried to; nothing actually means anything to him.
The idea of letting the Russians in the Oval Office with their photographer while banning our own press is the best example yet of his utter unconsciousness of consequences. I reckon it's the most unconscious act he's done since calling up the President of Taiwan to congratulate her on her victory.
Trump is a perfect storm of ignorance and amorality. I am blown away that he mirrors an American People dumbed down by saturation advertising, "reality" shows, "celebs."
I mean, as Pogo once said, paraphrasing the statement of an early-1800s American naval hero, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, "We have met the enemy and they are us." But let's drink to the Fat Lady anyway!
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