Could this be a repeat of Nixon and Agnew?
Agnew resigned, Nixon replaced him with Ford, Nixon resigns, Ford becomes President. Could Pence do the same thing and resign? Trump appoints a new VP and then he resigns.
Agnew was in trouble for tax evasion before Nixon was facing impeachment. So, per the 25th Amendment, Nixon appointed a new VP. The Dems have a dilemma. If they find dirt on Pence and force him out, Trump gets to pick a new VP. If Trump is forced out of office, Pence becomes the President and pick a VP. The Dems can't win without simultaneous impeachments, an impossibility.
Nope Pence hooked his political wagon to the Trump train long ago. His only chance of staying out of trouble is praying Trump gets away with turning America into a dictatorship!
Agnew resigned due to the findings of a corruption investigation for tax fraud, I believe and had nothing to do with Nixon's troubles.
Nixon appointed Ford because he had a reputation for covering up crimes due to his work on the Warren commission and was the author of the Maguc bullet theory.
Nixon knew who the corrupt ones were because he was a part of that cabal and good friends with the Walker-Bush clan
As bad as Nixon was, he wasn't nearly as bad as Trump. Nixon at least respected the institutions of our government and was intelligent. Trump is a pure psychopath and not a very bright one.
Its going to get ugly
- Why is it mocking Ford to repeat/paraphrase her words? She does not know any details. How is it mocking her to point that out? Where were you? "I don't know". When? "I don't know"… If those word are so offensive, why were they used? Why is it so offensive to point to her own testimony?
- Was Ford's pardon of Nixon legal? Does the President have the right to "pardon" an individual prior to adjudication of a particular set of charges?
- Trump is a Racist, but hasn't everyone forgot Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole, Bush, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Goldwater and Ike? Well actually hasn't the race-bating started to intensified since Reagan? How quickly we forget every 4 years and the chants and the driving narrative of the Left? @Grundoon, You're making the same old defense that is part of the prevailing narrative made by the Media and Hollywood themselves. @ xg6 , Actually it began in the late 1970's, until 1965 Democrats had nothing to stand on and there was no Jessie Jackson or Al Sharptons.
- Obama deserves a severe punishment for repeating Richard Nixon's Water Gate Scandal. The only reason Nixon didn't get a? Harsh punishment is because he resigned & the next POTUS Gerald Ford Pardoned him in 1974 Trump Declassified a memo that shows Obama did something that was the same thing or worse then Richard Nixon's Water-gate Scandal