https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/history-comes-short-face-presidents-caprice MGB:
To accept responsibility allows one to take action. Trump is a coward who knows any action he takes will likely be wrong, but is afraid to make decisions from his better informed advisers. He is no moral leader. CEOs are trained to take personal advantage, which makes them amoral (although they do resign if they break the 11th Commandment - Don't Get Caught). That is exactly the opposite of what a President needs to be.
British PMs can quit easily. Their party will simply replace them and the Queen affirm them (even if in her heart she knows better). President's resigning will give a like-minded VP the office, but will due long term harm to his party. Groups never take responsibility, whether the Tories or the Republicans (or their opponents). That is why the leader is the scapegoat, although in this case the leader is the whole problem and the GOP is the scapegoat. He has no love for his party.
Donald Trump is probably considering exit strategies. Not to think so is a failure of imagination. He might stay in Argentina, since they do not extradite. He just needs to resign when the Secret Service is not there. If his children are with him, it is even more a possibility. If were sure that Mueller will not touch Pence, or that the Senate would not remove the VP, he may wait until January 20 at noon to allow Pence to run for a second term (as if the could even get a first term - even without pardoning Trump, he has no chance of election in his own right). If Pence can't dodge his responsibility for lying to the American people and covering for Flynn, et al, then Pelosi or Clinton become POTUS after January 4th. Ryan would become POTUS up until that point. That would really be an accidental presidency.
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