Former Secretary of State Colin Powell calls on Trump to step down

WASHINGTON (TIP): Former secretary of state Colin Powell said Friday,
January 8, that Trump should follow the lead of former president Richard M.
Nixon and resign before being forced out of office.

Appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, Powell said that both impeachment and
removing Trump under the 25 th Amendment would be “time-consuming” and that
Trump should simply resign “as quickly as possible.”

“I wish he would just do what Nixon did, and that’s step down,” Powell said.
“Somebody ought to go up there and tell him, ‘It’s over. The plane’s waiting for
you. You’re out.’ That way he would not only step down, he would in addition sort
of cut the guts out from underneath this group of people who he has working for
him.”

The retired four-star general said: “What he is responsible for is one of the most
disgusting things I’ve ever seen in all my years as a government employee here in

the United States of America and in Washington, D.C. He should be totally
ashamed of himself, and he should take that shame and turn it into a resignation as
quickly as possible.”