Donald Trump Contemplates Fleeing the US

On Friday, at a campaign rally in Macon in Georgia, USA, Donald Trump (left) floated the idea that he'd leave the country if he loses next month's presidential election. 

It's a joke, of course. 

But really the joke is supposed to be the idea of Trump losing to Joe Biden in the first place. That's how I see it.

I dare declare that Trump will be re-elected President of the United States of America. And if that happens, it won't be a joke anymore! 

I’m not treating it as a joke – if he loses in November, chances are he’s likely to flee because he’ll have to forfeit not only a sitting president’s presumptive immunity from prosecution but also the levers of power he has aggressively co-opted for his own protection. 

Indeed, if Biden (right) is sworn in as president, his attorney general will inherit a mountain of criminal evidence against Trump accumulated by Robert Mueller and a host of inspectors general and congressional oversight committees. From obstruction of justice and lying to investigators to tax evasion and conspiracy with Russian intelligence to commit an offense against the United States. 

But I may be wrong. I read that it’s not that simple a matter to indict him. 

Trump will persist to claim immunity from the judicial process even after he leaves office – a surefire delaying tactic. And by the time any federal charges come to trial, Trump is likely to be either senile or already dead. 

And here’s the clincher. Even if he broke the law as president, law experts generally agree, he may well get away with it! Like wow!