He needs to resign. Immediately. Full stop. Do not pass GO. Get Out.

The only thing more frustrating about this is that he SHOULD have been convicted roughly six years ago for very similar corrption charges. He was indicted in 2015 by the DOJ (during a Democratic administration, mind you) on charges of bribery, fraud and making false statements. It went to trial in 2017 but the judge declared a mis-trial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on any of the charges. The DOJ at that time (during a Republican administration, mind you) declined to retry the case. As Wikipedia indicates, that is possibly due to the fact that another Supreme Court decision in 2016 made raised the bar substantially for prosecutors to prove charges of bribery of a public official. That case was McDonnell vs United States, involving one-time Virgina Governor Bob McDonnell. McDonnell (a Republican, mind you) was indicted, tried and convicted in 2015 on multiple accounts of taking gifts from a Virgina businessman but appealed to the Supreme Court which, in mid 2016, tossed his conviction UNANIMOUSLY, at which point the DOJ declined to re-try. Keep in mind, this is the same Supreme Court whose track record for integrity has been utterly destroyed with MULTIPLE cases of MULTIPLE justices enjoying hundreds of thousands of UNDISCLOSED dollars in gifts, luxury travel or indirect income from parties with obvious business before the court.



WTH