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I could see the orange one following that route, firing all and sundry in some kind of purge to get himself off the hook. But resigning? Not really his MO. Surely he'd have to be impeached, if there were anything that would stick. And would GOP not just vote against or even refuse to try the impeachment in the senate?
So immune or not, with GOP in charge of the senate, does this not make the whole thing somewhat of an academic exercise?
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I don't think it is totally clear about the President's immunity from prosecution. Trump is putting his faith on a legal opinion given for Nixon's White House in 1973 saying that the President was immune but the Vice President was not. It has never been tested in court.
In 1973 Agnew resigned as VP 5 minutes before appearing in court taking a plea deal to avoid decades in jail for mass bribery and corruption charges. 10 days later Nixon fired his Attorney General and his deputy and then the special prosecutor. That didn't save him, he too resigned before facing other charges or impeachment. https://www.msnbc.com/bagman