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Not unless Pence first chose Ryan to be his VP.

We have Trump as our president for eight full years,

Depends on the timing. If the impeachment of Trump takes sufficient time, and as it unfurls we find that Pence has lied and cooperated with Trump's Russian Connection cover-up, we might be starting impeachment proceedings for Pence shortly after he becomes president. That might take up up to midterms, with no VP chosen by Pence that passed the Senate yet. If the House and Senate go Democratic in 2018 amid the stench of Trump's impeachment revelations, then they can continue the impeachment of Pence, and with him out of the way whoever the Democrats chose as Speaker of the House becomes president.

The impeachment of Trump,

followed by the impeachment of Pense for participating in the cover-up,

should take us up to the 2018 midterm elections before Pense can nominate a VP candidate and get him approved by the Senate.

With impeachment in the news, the GOP loses big in the midterms and the Democrats take the House and the Senate.

In less than two years Trump will be living in Russia to avoid Federal prosecution with his own Russian TV show and making YouTube videos for the RT network about how he tried to stop the New World Order from taking over the government but Zionist bankers got him impeached and convicted.

Trump thinks he can change the focus by tweeting something outrageous. That trick is already wearing thin. Meanwhile, Mueller has gone about collecting evidence and getting Trump's crooked business cronies to turn evidence against him, (like Felix Sater), in a slow, methodical but deadly effective way. Trump's options will grow progressively narrower as Mueller bears down.

North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an "unprecedented" threat to his country.
The missile, launched early on Tuesday Korean time, flew over Hokkaido island before crashing into the sea.
The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency meeting in response.
North Korea has conducted a flurry of missile tests recently, but this is the first time it has fired what is thought to be a ballistic weapon over Japan.
On the two previous occasions its rockets crossed Japan - in 1998 and 2009 - North Korea said they were for satellite launch vehicles, not weapons.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says this latest launch appears to be the first of a missile powerful enough to potentially carry a nuclear warhead.

US President Donald Trump has lifted restrictions imposed by Barack Obama on the transfer of surplus military-style equipment to the police.
An executive order provides police with items including bullet-proof helmets and armoured vehicles.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the aim was to enhance public safety.
Mr Obama barred the military from handing over some types of military equipment to police after unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
The ban followed criticism that police were too heavy handed in dealing with the protests that followed the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in 2014.
The former US president was concerned about public reaction to images of heavily militarised police on the streets, saying it was important that police were perceived to be part of the community than being seen as an occupying force.

It doesn't matter how strong Trump's words are, Kim Jong Un knows he's full of ****. This is a first though, Trump is the first American president made to look like a dick by the North Koreans.

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