I’ve been thinking about things that may happen to Trump after he leaves office.
#1 - It will be found out that he did, or tried to sell pardons.
#2 - Trump will have to declare personal bankruptcy within five years.
#3 - If Trump is assassinated, then it will be by a QAnon/MAGA who feels betrayed by Trump (note, I’m not calling for Trump to be assassinated, I hope it doesn’t happen because then he will be a right-wing martyr and really he deserves to be in prison instead).
#4 - While Trump’s crimes will be investigated, and Trump will be charged, Trump will not go to prison.
#5 - A red notice will be granted by Interpol (I think by March 2021). Trump will not be able to travel abroad.
#6 - It will be found that Trump had knowledge of the coordination attempts (foreign payments, Congress tours, etc.) behind the attempted coup. Trump will not have ordered any of it however.
He’s going to be fighting a long parade of civil federal and state court cases for the rest of his short life. If he were a decade younger he might have lived to see the inside of a cell, but he won’t.
This plus, deprived of social media and the spotlight of his office, he’ll be restless and depressed, and his cognitive decline will worsen. No trump news network, no 2024 run, even if he’s allowed to. He’ll fade into obscurity.
Part of that prediction may be wishful thinking on my part, I concede.
Yeah, color me also doubtful that he will actually get his comeuppance. He will run out the clock. His life will be worse than his pre-presidency life, but better than it would have been without having been president.
“At noon on January 20, Trump will be in desperate shape. His business is floundering, his partners are fleeing, his loans are delinquent, prosecutors will be coming after him, and the legal impunity he enjoyed through his office will be gone. He will be walking naked into a cold and friendless world.”
He will manage to keep himself “relevant” somehow. He isn’t articulate enough to host a talk show, but he will continue to appear on talk shows, maybe just once a month, but forever. He will always find an enabler, and he will always perform to the lowest conceivable standards. He’s the family “crazy uncle” that you can never get rid of.
There will be a bit of follow up on the impeachment then the whole thing will vanish as if it never happened. Then will never hear about him again, unless they do another Apprentice.
Here is my fantasy. He is getting on Air Force 1 on Wednesday morning. At noon, the plane is about to land and the pilot gets an order to return to Washington and does so and Trump is left there having to pay his own way to go to Florida. I hope they have enough fuel.