I find it increasingly difficult to believe that Trump will renounce power when his presidential term ends in January 2028, despite the perfectly legal manner of his election:
1. Biden not only broke his pre-election pledge to be a one-term president but did so in the face of private polls , taken not much more that a year before the election, showing that Trump would beat him in a landslide. Nine months later, in the face of disastrous public polling, panicking Democrats tried and failed to persuade him to stand down. Finally, the deft Nancy Pelosi found the magic formula (maybe a warning that Trump after beating him would want to take revenge for his legal difficulties on Biden's son?). Biden did stand aside, but he obviously found it almost impossible to do so. Trump is not given to controlling his baser instincts.
2. Trump's cabinet appointments, and especially Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. If this is not a loyalty test for Republican U.S. Senators [update 30/01/2025 which they refused to pass], it is surely an attempt to turn the DOJ into Trump's personal tool, for persecuting people who have crossed him since he lost the presidency no doubt, but when the time comes to find reason why Trump can remain in office. Also maybe to create a potential MAGA leader in opposition to Vice President Vance.
Then also his track record last time and perhaps fear of what his opponents would do if he stood down.
Further update of 30/01/2025 - the sweeping pardon for the 6th Jan Capitol Hill rioters makes it even harder for me to believe that Trump will meekly leave he White House in 2029. He has the same problem Caesar did - only political office can keep him out of the courts.
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