Was the statement merely a sour-grapes throwaway line by a cantankerous candidate facing potential defeat? Or was it a signal that Trump might actually abandon—some would say flee—our shores and seek refuge elsewhere if he is routed by a Joe Biden victory?
During my long military intelligence career I spent countless hours with my peers working on diverse “What if … ?” contingency scenarios in complex locales such as the Balkans and Afghanistan.
In these intensely personal environments, where clan or tribal loyalty is paramount, local and regional leaders, often with links to organized criminal activities and enabling transnational networks, could be dangerously unpredictable. Judging from the array of personality traits gleaned from these and numerous other experiences, and correlating them to his current circumstances, to me Trump appears to be a classic flight risk.
Setting aside for the moment his conduct as president, Trump faces a financial and legal reckoning of immense proportions as soon as he leaves office. If he loses, he will no longer have protection from an avalanche of charges and lawsuits against him, his family and the Trump Organization.
His years of alleged tax evasion will be officially scrutinized—and far more publicly than before he held office. He will no longer be able to claim (falsely) that his taxes are still “under audit” and unavailable.
Trump properties and investments could be frozen, seized or plummet in value. The true nature of his extraordinary personal financial debt—recently reported as $421 million—will be exposed, and his likely foreign creditors revealed.
Surely adding to his worries was the announcement on October 15 by the Internal Revenue Service that it is indicting Robert Brockman, a wealthy Houston software magnate, in its largest tax-fraud case ever. read more
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/28/is-president-donald-trump-a-flight-risk-433313
Any country who would take him would be inflicting a foreign relations nightmare with no payoff, onto itself. I don’t see any convictions leading to jail time, because the dems frankly have tiny little testicles that rarely pose any threat to politicians. Pretty sure Duncan Hunter and his wife, and Chris Collins, and Michael Cohen are all relaxing on their patios having drinks and steak. Sheldon Silver, originally sentenced to 7 million fine and 22 years, gets 6.5, and 1 million. And I wouldn’t bet on him doing much time. We can no longer trust our courts to administer justice to the privileged among us, and have not been able to do so ever in our history. it’s Just Us for them and whips and guns for the rest of us. Jailing a President would strike fear in the hearts of the timid, and we have plenty of those.
Failure to jail a US ex-president for offenses commonly leading to jail to for the common person, would send a message regarding the future of the country. Make no mistake, if they do not do it now, they never will. I submit, we do not have enough honest people to do an honest job. The work starts, immediately after Trump leaves. He was never the job, just an interruption.
I posted this in a comment to yesterday’s Kushner/Woodward piece:
“Any possibility Sheldon Adelson will evacuate Drumpf and gift him with a topsy-turvy, anything-goes brothel in Macau? A structure designed in the style of M.C. Escher ?
And both share the ignominious title of SLAVERS….for many centuries. Woe-eth!
As journalist Tim Kirby wrote: “If your country has no powerful national media then you are a colony.”
His destination of choice… Israel, where all Kosher Nostra mobsters go to evade prosecution for their crimes.
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