The leadership of the GOP decides Trump has become a liability and he needs to step down. By "GOP leadership" I don't mean the traditional Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street, National Review, Country Club Republicans of the Establishment, but the Tea Party, Freedom Caucus, Libertarian crowd that has replaced them. You know, the Rand Redneck Right. I suspect Ted Cruz and Newt Gingrich will play a major role in this effort.

Trump will be collared and told he must resign, perhaps using some health issue as face-saver; if he doesn't his own party will destroy him by disclosing whatever dirt they have on him (you know they must have a shitload, more than anything Putin might have). They can also threaten to mount their own bipartisan anti-Trump campaign alongside the Democrats. Or they can just make something up. They are certainly capable of it, remember Birtherism and Benghazi?

The major problem will not be getting Trump to step down, but to salvage as much of the Trump program and his Deplorable constituency as they can after he does. They will somehow have to cover his departure or dismissal as some sort of fiendish Liberal plot. I'm sure the Talk Radio/Fox News machine will be able to prep the knuckle draggers appropriately. In fact, for them, it will be a ratings bonanza. We all have seen how the New Right revels in their own victimhood.

No doubt they will paint it all as a vast conspiracy put together by Obama and the Clintons.