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Carville Makes Shock Prediction on Trump’s Future

The veteran politico believes the president would exploit a shady trick to save his own skin.

Democratic strategist James Carville shared a bold forecast for how things will shake out if President Donald Trump resigns from office.

Appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast, the former Bill Clinton aide reiterated his prediction that Trump, 80, will quit in disgrace if Republicans lose big in November.

“I think he’s gonna get up and walk out of it,” Carville, 81, told host Joanna Coles. “He’s going to lose so decisively in November.”

“His power is going to just seep right out. No one’s going to even care,” he continued. “People really don’t care what he says anymore.”

However, it’s what the veteran politico says he’ll do next that’s even more shameful.

“It’s easy. He calls in JD Vance, and he says, ‘JD, I’ve decided I’m going to resign, I’m going to go back. You’re going to be the president, but your first act, that I have right here, as soon as you’re sworn in, you’re going to sign a pardon—pardon me for everything imaginable,’” Carville said.

“Because he can’t take the risk,” he continued. “There is some doubt as to the legality of a self-pardon. There’s some doubt. He has to eradicate that doubt.”

Vance, the politico explained, would absolutely hold pardon authority if Trump were to resign and he were to become president. But even if his prediction were wrong and Trump served the entirety of his four-year term, Carville said that the president “would still resign two days before to be sure he got the pardon, and it was done.”

“That guy’s not gonna take any chance with this at all,” he added. “And... to believe the contrary is just to be an idiot.”

The White House did not immediately return the Daily Beast’s request for comment.

Regarding the behaviors Trump would be wise to pardon himself for, Carville highlighted the president’s vanity project fundraising scheme with his “princess of darkness” Meredith O’Rourke, as reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, as a prime example.

The Journal reported that Trump calls O’Rourke, a longtime Florida fundraiser, every night to see how much money she has generated for his pet projects, including his tacky White House ballroom-bunker and his July Fourth celebrations.

Donors, who include both companies and wealthy individuals, are asked to donate anywhere between $5 million and $50 million towards Trump’s agenda. “The boss wants this money,” O’Rourke is understood to have said, in reference to Trump.

Many of these donors would go on to benefit from the White House’s regulatory decisions, according to the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper.

“What is more unethical than being President of the United States and charging people for an official deed?” Carville asked. “It’s right there. You pay if you want to play. You pay.”

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Vic VerbalaitisNight Breaking News Reporter

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