Premium ContentA modest proposal urging Donald Trump to step down as the presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee

To date, plenty of news outlets have suggested that President Biden should step down due to his age. “Joe Biden should bow out,” said a Washington Post opinion piece in September 2023. “Democrats Might Need a Plan B,” echoed Politico Magazine in February, which proceeded to provide “the political and procedural steps for how to pick a new presidential nominee.” But it’s been four days since Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts, and so far, it’s crickets. Trump’s not even above the fold anymore on CNN.com; his spot’s been taken by Hunter Biden.

Apparently, it has fallen to me, a lowly freelancer, to be perhaps the first Brooklyn journalist to call for convicted felon Donald J. Trump to do what he might well have done after many of his liaisons: pull out. Yes, he should pull out of the 2024 presidential race.

Trump’s not known for pulling out, true. But to ask a question similar to the one raised by Frederic, the lead character in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance,” “Is there not one?” Is there not one fearless member of the Republican Party who can convince their compatriots that Trump should be forced out at this point? After all, Republicans had to gang up on Nixon, and it took Barry Goldwater’s leadership to convince him to resign.

Even if you’re among those saying the New York jury was “suspect,” the deliberation “faux,” and Trump’s transgressions “victimless misdemeanors” and not felonies, the fact remains that, as the London Times noted on May 31, Donald Trump is now a convicted felon who “faces 57 more felony charges in three other jurisdictions. He is set to spend much of this year in court.”

Red or Blue, is that really what we want from a U.S. presidential nominee? How does it benefit America to have a presidential hopeful — let alone a president — whose attention is so divided and whose time, energy and finances are so sapped by multiple ongoing lawsuits and court…

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