Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has filed for an extension of his 2016 taxes, a White House official confirmed to CNN Saturday.
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"Members that could determine the majority have no use for Trump. He's sitting in the 30s in their districts. They've been trying to manage him, but they're fed up. He didn't win their districts, lost them badly. ... Coming off this, doing a crisis a minute with Trump, they have no reason to stick with Trump, and they won't."
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“Overnight we’ve seen more than [£5,000] bet on Trump to leave before the end of his first term, and we expect to see a lot more bet today, with his odds now shortening from evens into 5/6,” Katie Baylis, spokeswoman at Betfair PPB, +1.66% , said in a note Wednesday morning. That implies a 55% probability that the president will exit before his term ends.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege to try to prevent James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, from providing potentially damaging testimony to Congress on statements the president made about an investigation into his former national security adviser, two senior administration officials said Friday.
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The FBI and Congress are examining a campaign event last spring during which Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner were in a small gathering with Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak and other diplomats at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.So, the question of the day... "How long to the point of no return?" Will 'The Donald' finish his first term, or will impeachment or resignation come first?
(Just got out of the hospital after a week-long stay, so please forgive my recent relative absence. I'm okay, though. Trump's Presidency? I'm beginning to wonder...)
JMJ