Quote Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper View Post
I hope Trump barricades himself in the Oval Office and refuses to come out. Best episode of COPS ever!

Seriously though, don't think that the crazy is over - he's still got a lot of lawsuits to throw and see what sticks, and even if they all fail (they're apparently pretty flimsy so far) he's still got until January 20 before he's actually Not the President anymore. That's a LOT of time to do damage for a desperate, vengeful, spiteful man with nothing to lose.
This was something that I was saying to someone else on fb, in that he will still hold power for another 11 weeks, with the power of the Republican senate behind him, to burn down Rome if he wanted to... to make it even harder for the next administration to start working straight away, to deal with the virus and the economy. He still has executive order powers, that has access to a lot of money if he wanted to spend it on something stupid, or funnel it towards things he would benefit from.
I wouldn't put it past him to use his control over his followers, to rise up and protect "their" president from being evicted on January 20th, whom he has already convinced that the election was rigged, claiming that Republican observers were not present, even though Republican observers have said that they were.
The last civil war in America had two Presidents, that each side believed was the one true president, so it has happened before, and we've already seen trump tweet out a call to arms to his followers, leading to some state buildings being over-run by armed trump supporters (and more recently, attempts to over-run counting rooms to stop the count, just because he told them to do it by twitter).

Quote Originally Posted by DELTAprime View Post
I heard prosecutors are getting ready to arrest Trump for things like tax evasion the second he leaves the White House.
Something that was included in the Russia Collusion report was that if he wasn't currently a sitting president, he would have been charged with a number of offences... meaning, he wasn't being charged because he was innocent (as claimed by his puppet attorney general Barr), but because the constitution of America does not allow a sitting president to be charged with a crime... the charges have to wait until he has finished his term (4 or 8 years).
As such, it was noted after the impeachment trial that he has a lot potential charges and lawsuits waiting for him when he is no longer president (which is why he is so desperate to remain president, for life).

The example to bring up here is Nixon, who resigned before his impeachment trial, so that he didn't have the humiliation of being removed by force, when he left office, he was pardoned by his replacement Gerald Ford, which lost him all credibility as it tainted him as if he was colluding with Nixon, by preventing him from being held accountable for the Watergate scandal.
Even if Biden was somehow forced to pardon trump for his federal crimes (like the Russia collusion), it still leaves him with a lot of state charges waiting for him after January 20th... so either he calls for his supporters to rise up and defend him, or he sneaks off to a country without an extradition treaty.