Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
The problem with resignation - the external, non-emotional or psychological problem - is that Trump will be vulnerable to prompt indictment upon resignation.

Why has he spent all of 2018 running a political communications campaign to undermine the courts and law enforcement in the public eye? Because he has no formal alternative short of despotism.

His top priority is to last until 2020 and win reelection, or to have a loyalist Republican win the 2020 election.

Where have we seen this before? Wolf. Ears.
Hence he'd only do it if he had either pardoned himself or got Pence to do it for him. Can he do that? Who knows? No one thought it would ever be done.