The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.
No American President has ever been charged with a criminal offence. But, as Donald Trump fights to hold on to the White House, he and those around him surely know that if he loses—an outcome that nobody should count on—the presumption of immunity that attends the Presidency will vanish. Given that more than a dozen investigations and civil suits involving Trump are currently under way, he could be looking at an endgame even more perilous than the one confronted by Nixon. The Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said of Trump, “If he loses, you have a situation that’s not dissimilar to that of Nixon when he resigned. Nixon spoke of the cell door clanging shut.” Trump has famously survived one impeachment, two divorces, six bankruptcies, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. Few people have evaded consequences more cunningly. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if he loses to Joe Biden. Even if Trump wins, grave legal and financial threats will loom over his second term.
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Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. The magazine’s chief Washington correspondent, she covers politics, culture, and national security.
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2 responses to “Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose (New Yorker Nov 2, 2020)”
Trumps not the only one in that little package !
He (Trump) was always on a hiding to nothing.
The good (sic.) thing was, the same machine that was 100/1 on; believing they were getting Hillary Clinton elected, that machine became more visible to the Trump voters and the great media hypnosis wasn’t as effective as its hubris believed.
The same machine has ran the same way since, only this time their verbals have the Trump card of Joker votes.
My hope is he (Trump) goes feral and let’s the Directed Energy Weapon cat. out of the bag, that his neighbours used to insurance scam their real estate.
G W Bush is giving media evidence for Biden now.
He’d be the last one to want the fragments of 9/11 put back together. ;-p
The house of Bush wouldn’t have got off on cousin Jeb being KO’d by Trump either.
The Bush’s like to make presidents, upstarts are seen as impertinent. and Guinea Spiv Giuliani should have advised his client to walk behind ER11.
This New Yorker Reporter of course has no idea or is following suit.
The headline for the discerning moron.
The ABC here has gone full on false witness on a loop too. So more confirmation of its subordination to the machine.
The Biden/Harris true believers are innocent of course…they can’t miss what they have never known.
Thanks for your beacons in the brilliant darkness.