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[zeek]

If Trump shuts down the government this weekend will he play golf while secret service service agents guard him without pay?

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by zeek

If Trump shuts down the government this weekend will he play golf while secret service service agents guard him without pay?

Secret Service is exempt.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Secret Service is exempt.

From what I gather they aren't.

[ZNPaaneah]

Originally Posted by awareness

From what I gather they aren't.

They are required to stay on the job, they have to wait to get paid though. So they aren't furloughed, they continue to work and they will get paid for that work once the govt is back up and running.


For example, the U.S. Secret Service agents protecting Drumpf and his family would not be paid during a shutdown. Transportation Security Agency personnel working at airports through the holiday season would also stay on the job during a shutdown, but they’d also have to wait to get paid.

[ZNPaaneah]

Some are predicting Trump will resign within a month.


Jan 18?


The idea is that he can use his agreement to resign as leverage to avoid prosecution. So although he is exempt as President his son and daughter are not. That prosecution can probably start within the next month after this last court victory getting the subpoena of a foreign corporation. If Trump were to pardon his own family there would be riots in the street, the Republican party would be terrified of that prospect. They would get crushed in the election. Besides he will need their good will to get a pardon for himself.


Although it is speculation as to what information they will get from this mysterious corporation, what isn't speculation is that it has been proven conclusively to several courts to be relevant to the case concerning colusion, and that this is a corporation in a country that does not already have an agreement with the US to provide these subpoenas without all this legal battle -- ie Russia. Therefore Mueller must have provided sufficient evidence that they will find proof of fraud or collusion with either the Trump campaign or the Trump organization. Either way Don Jr. and Ivanka would be squarely in the cross hairs of Mueller.


Also they have made this personal -- Flynn's attacks on the FBI, Fox news attack on Mueller, and Trump's continued "no collusion" have made this personal for Mueller.

[ZNPaaneah]

Time for Trump to give his "checkers" speech.

[zeek]

Where have all the generals gone? Now General Mattis is quitting the Trump administration in protest after Trump disregarded his advice and announced pulling the troops out of Syria prematurely. Like when Trump sent troops to the Mexican border he is once again playing politics with America's military. The generals chose to leave because no one with integrity can work for Donald Trump.