“RESIGN NOW” – pressure mounts for Donald Trump’s resignation in wake of negligent homicide scandal

| 4:22 pm EDT September 9, 2020
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At long last we finally have proof – out of Donald Trump’s own mouth on tape no less – that he was purposely lying to the American people about the coronavirus crisis from the start. This means that Trump wasn’t merely incompetent, he was criminally negligent in the deaths of nearly 200,000 Americans. That’s felony negligent homicide.

The bombshell news from Bob Woodward has set off a firestorm of backlash, outrage, and calls for Donald Trump’s resignation. Everyone from Joy Behar, to Eliza Dushku, to former Trump supporter David Weissman, has begun tweeting “RESIGN NOW” at Trump.

Do we expect Trump to resign over this? No. He knows he’s headed to prison once he’s no longer in office, so the only motivation he’d have to resign at this point would be in exchange for criminal leniency in a plea deal. Trump doesn’t seem coherent enough to understand that a resignation plea deal would be his best option at this point.

But when the national conversation two months before the election is about whether the sitting President should resign immediately for committing felony negligent homicide, it means things aren’t exactly going well for him.