Rubin offer five scenarios for the future of trumplandia. My personal favorite is:
4. Republicans join Democrats in warning Trump not to fire Mueller. Mueller remains and keeps digging. Mueller subpoenas damaging documents; Trump refuses to comply. A court orders him to comply. He declares this a witch hunt, an attack on his family (or whatever). Then he resigns, claiming he has already made America great. He tells the country that Vice President Pence will carry on in his place. LESSON: Congress must protect Mueller and preserve the possibility that Trump may be forced to resign.
Three of the other four lead to Mueller staying in place or being rehired by Congress (#2). Even if Trump manages to fire Mueller (#1), drumpf’s presidency will be in tatters and the GOP “crashes.”
1. Mueller is fired, but House resists voting for articles of impeachment or if it does, those articles cannot proceed to Senate. Even so, drumpf is over, somehow. (Personally, I am wondering about his ability to keep even a skeletal staff inside the WH.)
2. Mueller is fired, but and an independent investigation is created. Mueller is hired back.
3. Republicans agree that Mueller should not/cannot be fired. Mueller keeps digging. Drumpf refuses to comply with subpoenas. A full blown constitutional crisis unfolds.
4. my fav above
5. . . .Mueller subpoenas damaging documents. Trump complies. The evidence of collusion and/or obstruction is overwhelming. Mueller recommends prosecution or impeachment. The GOP turns on Trump, who is impeached and removed (with the GOP by that time possibly in the minority in one or both houses). . .
I am officially posting my, till now, private prediction since February: something huge will happen in August, something which will be the equivalent of drumpf’s end. This is pure instinct. It has nothing to do with logic, but things seem to be heating up just in time. One kossack posted that the eclipse will do trumplandia in. I concur. The heavens will need to save us from this one.