I think he'd return to the US at some point when he is dead sure that the pardon he gets from Pence is legally solid and binding.
Even if he goes the route of resigning and getting pardoned by Pence, a Pence presidential pardon can only protect him from federal prosecution. The state cases against him in, say, New York would be unaffected, and they are quite threatening ones that are not unlikely to go against him. He can never be safe while he remains in the US.
That is a good point about the states. I had forgotten all about that!
What do you think about the exit to a foreign country to avoid extradition? Does that sound feasible or not?
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
What do you think about the exit to a foreign country to avoid extradition? Does that sound feasible or not?
Well, it's not impossible.
But surely a much more important consideration is the immense damage that could be done by an alienated former president and commander-in-chief wandering from refuge to refuge and looking for favours. He would be the biggest defector ever, and I hope nobody will have any illusions about his likely willingness to sell his insider knowledge for all he can get, if only to pay back the country that rejected him.
I am sure that foreign intelligence services will, in such a case, converge on him like blowflies on a fresh dog dropping. And he will be immensely flattered by their attention, which he will do his best to encourage with suitable insights into the inner secrets of US defense in all its aspects.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
What do you think about the exit to a foreign country to avoid extradition? Does that sound feasible or not?
Well, it's not impossible.
But surely a much more important consideration is the immense damage that could be done by an alienated former president and commander-in-chief wandering from refuge to refuge and looking for favours. He would be the biggest defector ever, and I hope nobody will have any illusions about his likely willingness to sell his insider knowledge for all he can get, if only to pay back the country that rejected him.
I am sure that foreign intelligence services will, in such a case, converge on him like blowflies on a fresh dog dropping. And he will be immensely flattered by their attention, which he will do his best to encourage with suitable insights into the inner secrets of US defense in all its aspects.
Yeah I know. They'd have him for lunch and he'd dish it up for whatever he could get out of it.
Then again, he could retire to his place in Florida and try to tie up the SDNY and other lawsuits in the courts. Though court rulings haven't all exactly been in his favor recently.
When you think about it, he really is a marked man anyway you look at it. The question is will the ending come now due to losing the election or four years later with another term if he lives out his time in office for a second term. His objective is to survive. Even if that means a one-way ticket to the UAE.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb