Someone brought up earlier in the thread that if Trump were impeached, he'd no longer be president, and would not be able to give himself a pardon.
However..................Pence could pardon Trump if he's kicked out of office, but I don't really think that Pence would be interested in doing that because it would be political suicide.
No...he would have to be removed from office. Impeachment does not remove him from being president.
I think this is going to turn out bad for trump....his family ....and the country. I think it will be a surprise ending that none of us ever dreamed of.
You know, when I was active duty, there was an admiral named Boorda who had managed to buck up through the enlisted and officer ranks all the way to CNO. And, because he demonstrated that it could be done, the Navy came up with a program called Seaman to Admiral program.
He did really good, and was pretty well respected until someone started to question a V for valor on two of his awards. The pressure of being CNO, combined with this scandal made him commit suicide at 56.
Now, we already know that Trump doesn't do very well with pressure or bad press, and here lately, he's been looking pretty stressed in his body language. Combine that with being president, the Stormy D. case, Mueller and the Russian investigation and all the other crap he's gotta deal with, I'm thinking that the surprise ending might be that he simply quits, or, if Melania leaves him, he might check out permanently.