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Re: Trump Thread
To me it sounds like a pretty big scandal if his VP were to resign.
Has that ever happened?
I think if he doesn't resign he has a relatively good chance of automatically becoming the president for a while, so it might be hard to make him resign. He's probably more religious (and might be closer to his wife) than the other four so he has a better support structure. He might resign if Trump does something outrageous that deeply offends his values and the Republicans still won't impeach him over it.
That's just my amateur guesswork though.
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Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP. He had a slew of various charges (unrelated to Watergate, IIRC) that forced his resignation.
He can smell the Presidency, he's going nowhere. He will continue to debase himself if there is a chance Trump leaves before his term is up. And he already has the framework for a primary challenge in 2020 if Trump stays.
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Absolutely. He was a poster boy for state corruption in Maryland. Nothing to do with Watergate at all. Another VP had resigned, Calhoun, back in the first half of the 19th, in order to take a seat in the Senate and make a bid for the Presidency.
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I heard that almost all members of the "economic council" that Trump introduced before the elections have resigned.
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Trump closed the two economic councils down rather than see 90+% resignation rates for both take hold. There were mass resignations.
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