Welcome to White House Resignation Week
In the past ten days we’ve seen too many people resign from Donald Trump’s White House to fully list. The reasons have ranged from allegations of domestic violence to trouble with security clearance background checks. It’s been part of a pattern in which the ever-corrupt Trump has generally only hired the worst people he could find, and has then had to shove them out the back door on a regular basis. This week we’re looking for a resignation spree of a different kind.
If you’re a Trump White House adviser or aide and you’re not a criminal, maybe you’ve held out hope that Donald Trump might survive this, even as Trump’s most infamous henchmen like Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort have been arrested or cut plea deals. But Robert Mueller’s grand jury indictment on Friday against the Russians who conspired to rig the election in Trump’s favor? That’s the death knell for Trump’s presidency. No one knows for sure when it’ll fall, but anyone with political smarts now knows that it’s absolutely going to fall.
So this is the week where push comes to shove. Among Trump’s White House advisers who weren’t a part of the Trump-Russia criminal scandal, how many of them will quietly bail this week? They can now see the writing on the wall. They’ve already seen Donald Trump commit increasingly brazen acts of obstruction of justice to try to derail the investigation, and they’ve seen some of Trump’s top people get caught up in a criminal obstruction investigation as a result.
This is going to be White House Resignation Week. Every semi-rational person in the Trump administration now knows that it’s over. How many of them will resign this week, either because they don’t want to get dragged into the mess, or because they don’t expect their job to exist much longer anyway? Most of these kinds of resignations take place on Friday afternoons, so let’s keep a close eye as this week goes on.
