Do You Think Trump Will Pull A Nixon If He's Caught In The Mueller Probe?

[Nameless14]

Why?

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure he was Nixon's type. In any case Nixon's gone now so he'd be a bit late.

[andy-hughes]

No way.

Nixon was a politician, and he was shrewd enough to know when the game was up.

Nixon was always to look his most sincere when telling his biggest lies - a pre-requisite for any politician.

Trump is a businessman, not a politician. He has no grasp at all of the way politics works, the nuances, the alliances, the plate-spinning needed to survive at the level he has fluked into.

Trump will never understand when the game is up - he sees only simple solutions, mainly - he says, it happens, so he will have to be forcibly advised when his time is up, he won't go quietly.

[ludwig]

Who knows. If he's ever impeached I can see him fighting it to the end just as easily as I can see him resigning.

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - // Who knows. If he's ever impeached I can see him fighting it to the end just as easily as I can see him resigning. //

As a man who has cearly never heard phrases like "You can't do that …" and "That is morally repugnant …" and "The law prevents you from doing that …" anything like enough times in his adult life, i.e. - ever, then he will of course fight, because he will never understand the concept of not being adored.

[ludwig]

..but I can also see him not wanting to give any of his enemies the satisfaction of forcibly removing him from office.

[douglas9401]

Not resign as such but leave in a strunt with much pouting and waving of tiny hands.

[Peter Pedant]

no
hi nameless

[MallyJ]

Please explain the strange expression 'pull a nixon' What on earth does it mean?...is it even real english?

[douglas9401]

It may mean 'trying to date a dead magician'.

[andy-hughes]

MallyJ - // Please explain the strange expression 'pull a nixon' What on earth does it mean?...is it even real english? //

I think the reference is to Tricky Dicky who was roundly caught out sanctioning illegal activity, and then, realising that the game was up, playing the dignified statesmen while lying to the nation in his last broadcast before being kicked out.

[ludwig]

Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached. The question is would Trump do the same.