Listen up boys and girls. It is time to color outside the box and ignore the lines.
trump obviously has decided to ignore the laws of the the United States as codified in our Constitution and use those laws to further his own interests at our expense.
Just as clearly he has forfeited any protections the law might allow him in the event of a setback for him because of his disregard for the laws of the country.
Fortunately history is replete with examples of such extra legal remedies to intolerable behavior on the part of a national officeholder.
There is a possible legal remedy to our situation which I will outline soon. In the meantime, let us consider what might happen if the legal remedies fail to suffice.
The United States has a long history of extra legal actions for political,purposes.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_politicians]
The case of Romania and the Ceaucescu family in the 1980's may be an exemplar for the United States.
'The trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu was a short trial held on 25 December 1989 by an Exceptional Military Tribunal, a drumhead court-martial created at the request of a newly formed group called the National Salvation Front, resulting in the death sentence and execution of former Romanian President and Romanian Communist Party General Secretary, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and his wife, Elena Ceaușescu.
Marked by irregularities that are typical of kangaroo courts and show trials, the main charge was genocide—namely, murdering "over 60,000 people" during the revolution in Timișoara. Other sources put the death toll between 689 and 1,200. Nevertheless, the charges did not affect the trial, as the verdict had been already decided before the tribunal had been created; General Victor Stănculescu had brought with him a specially selected team of paratroopers from a crack regiment, handpicked earlier in the morning to act as a firing squad. Before the legal proceedings began, Stănculescu had already selected the spot where the execution would take place—along one side of the wall in the barracks' square'.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_execution_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C8%99escu]
'Nicolae Ceaușescu refused to recognize the tribunal, arguing its lack of constitutional basis and claiming that the revolutionary authorities were part of a Soviet plot.
After the Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, the National Salvation Front (FSN) took power, led by Ion Iliescu. The FSN transformed itself into a political party and overwhelmingly won the general election of May 1990, with Iliescu as president. These first months were marked by violent protests and counter-protests, involving among others the coal miners of the Jiu Valley.
The government undertook a programme of free market economic reforms and privatization, following a gradualist line rather than shock therapy. Economic reforms have continued, although there was little economic growth until the 2000s. Social reforms soon after the revolution included easing of the former restrictions on contraception and abortion. Later governments implemented further social policy changes.
Political reforms have been based on a new democratic constitution adopted in 1991. The FSN split that year, beginning a period of coalition governments that lasted until 2000, when Iliescu's Social Democratic Party (now the Party of Social Democracy in Romania, PDSR), returned to power and Iliescu again became President, with Adrian Năstase as Prime Minister. This government fell in the 2004 elections amid allegations of corruption, and was succeeded by further unstable coalitions which have been subject to similar allegations.
During the period Romania has become more closely integrated with the West, becoming a member of NATO in 2004 and of the European Union in 2007.'
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Romania_since_1989]
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