One year ago today I made a rare prediction. I predicted that Donald Trump would resign the U.S. presidency within one year. In that post I said, “I’m going to make a prediction: Donald Trump will resign the U.S. presidency within a year. In doing so, I think he could throw up a smokescreen, giving as the sole reason for his departure that the federal government is treating his financial empire unfairly. That is another investigation that has just begun.”
I think it was sometime after the date of this post, May 10, 2017, that President Trump first declared that if special counsel Robert Mueller investigated Trump’s financial empire along with Mueller Russian probe, Trump said that would be “crossing a red line,” whatever that meant.
A few days after this May 10th post I wrote in another post about this prediction, “I may be wrong, it might be two years.” I was half kidding about the first clause, throwing readers off by making them think I might be wrong, that Trump wouldn’t resign at all. But I also meant what I said, that it might take up him sometime between one and two years to resign. And his stated reason would be that Mueller had crossed the red line, it being Trump’s financial dealings. Of course, Trump’s money or Russian money could be a part of his collusion with Russians during the campaign.
Last month, Donald Trump’s first ex-wife Ivana Trump–with whom the media says he often talks on the phone–says The Donald should not run for a second presidential term and “just go and play golf.” In an interview with the New York Post on April 21 she said, “I’ll tell you something, I don’t think it’s necessary. He has a good life and he has everything. Donald is going to be 74, 73 for the next [election] and maybe he should just go and play golf and enjoy his fortune.”
I think Trump could get into so much trouble regarding Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion, and it could implicate Trump financially a lot, that Trump could still resign by May 10, 2019. If he accomplishes the main things he campaigned about, that would make it even more likely.
Donald Trump has now pretty much done all that he set out to do as president except for the main thing–build the wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. If he gets Congress to go along with getting this wall substantially started, he would have accomplished his goals. The wall might be the deciding factor that will make him take up his ex’s advice–fogettaboutit, all this being president stuff, and just go play golf.
But if President Donald Trump does resign, yet he’s found guilty of collusion with Russia, he may not be able to stay out of prison? Yelling about Hilary Clinton, “LOCK HER UP,” could come back to bite not only Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn but Donald Trump himself. Remember, President Richard Nixon was headed for jail time until his successor Gerald Ford pardoned him.
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