Checkmated Trump, who sheltered mob, should follow Nixon and resign, for pardon’s sake

Trump’s wall has fallen down.

OPINION

In chess, the king or supreme leader is protected by pawns, religious men and military strategists. If they fall, he is held in a hopeless position, or checkmated. 

If the king is not in check because he has sheltered his minions but has no legal move, then it is a stalemate, and the game immediately ends in a draw. But Trump is not a king, and insurrection in a democracy is not a board game. 

To save the nation, Trump should resign. Even if the House impeached him, the Republican Senate will not remove him from Office because the Party would face indictment, according to the Constitution: Article 1, Section 3.

Let’s be clear: During a pandemic, Trump focused on his losing fairly but denied the outcome. During his four years in the White House, he did not administer his office to help the people of the United States. Instead he deflected from real issues like healthcare, tax and campaign finance reform, affordable housing, environmental protection, energy sufficiency, mass transportation and incarceration, and infrastructure improvements, international relations, education improvements, unemployment, police brutality, educational debt, predatory banking, poverty, racism and his tax returns, to name a few.

I’m at a loss for words to command from memory what he did of value.

His misuse of money to finance his own businesses, his appointment of his family and not people with experience and credentials, his pardoning of criminals, the enlistment of the Justice Dept. to get him out of legal hot water, his golf course contracts, his phone calls to find more votes and find dirt on Biden’s son, etc., etc., etc.

Impeachment should not be delayed, but the Senate will never vote to remove him because again, it would point fingers at the Republican Party per the Constitution: Article 1, Section 3.

James Madison from the Virginia ratification convention stated, "If the President be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe that he will shelter him, he may be impeached." Trump told the mob that stormed the Capitol they were loved, special people. He engaged in a series of public statements and actions designed to incite, to tear up government property, terrorize members of Congress, and stop the votes of the people.

The Constitution charges the President with the task of taking care that laws be faithfully executed. Instead, he sought to overturn electoral college votes. A President is impeachable if he attempts to “subvert the Constitution."

Barbara Jordan asked a great question after she laid out her painful inquiry into the impeachment of Nixon for Watergate based on misconduct of a public man in violation of public trust. She entertained that encroachments and excesses of a tyrannical Executive swollen with power should not be left unchecked. 

Jordan asked the question, “Should a President who has committed offenses, planned, directed, and acquiesced in a course of conduct which the Constitution will not tolerate” be impeached? And removed? It’s time for Trump to go, no matter the consequence, and it would be better if he takes himself off the board himself. Then he will not be considered a martyr by his friends.