That will only prevent him from being prosecuted in Federal Court. NY State has a nice court room just waiting for him.
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The article has one possible solution:
First, House Democrats should stop issuing the Trump administration a blank check. The federal government is only funded through Dec. 11, and a new continuing resolution will be needed to avoid a shutdown. Congress should use its power to put limits on what an appropriation may be used for, and ban the use of funds for entering into new federal contracts or providing grants before Jan. 21, 2021.
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The recourse Democrats have is Obama’s qui tam suite.
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Pillaging…plundering…desecrating…
If he thought he could get away with it, he’d burn down the WH just so Obama couldn’t come visit the Bidens there.
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And, I hope a cold cell with no mattress and a clogged toilet. And, an interesting roommate.
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Pigs don’t shit where they eat, that’s the difference between them and Trump.
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Put away the brooms (no need to sweep malfeasance under the rug) and get out the spotlights.
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If he was smart he’ll have his private plane fueled up and ready to fly to a distant country with no extradition treaty for the United States.
If he was smart… 
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Yeah, I have to think his immediate focus after losing would be how to keep his ass out of jail.
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These are his choices: Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Iceland, Switzerland, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
I can see Switzerland, maybe Iceland. The rest are “shithole” countries.
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Even shithole countries need a tRump Tower and golf course. Zimbabwe might have some interesting hazards 
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Can a sitting president ride a private plane? Would his handlers permit it? Trying to think of a prior instance of this happening (without the fleeing the country part, just casually riding in someone else’s plane).
Russia, China, Israel (must convert to Judaism), Vietnam, and the dark horse candidate, Indonesia. Lot of nice beach islands in that archipelago. One ex-deutschebank moscow trading desk head is already there in Bali.
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This just one more norm for him to break. I think it’s highly likely he’ll flee the country.
The President’s niece Mary Trump—a psychologist and the author of the tell-all memoir “Too Much and Never Enough”—told me that his fury “speaks to his desperation,” adding, “He knows that if he doesn’t manage to stay in office he’s in serious trouble. I believe he’ll be prosecuted, because it seems almost undeniable how extensive and long his criminality is. If it doesn’t happen at the federal level, it has to happen at the state level.” She described the “narcissistic injury” that Trump will suffer if he is rejected at the polls. Within the Trump family, she said, “losing was a death sentence—literally and figuratively.” Her father, Fred Trump, Jr., the President’s older brother, “was essentially destroyed” by her grandfather’s judgment that Fred was not “a winner.” (Fred died in 1981, of complications from alcoholism.) As the President ponders potential political defeat, she believes, he is “a terrified little boy.”
Barbara Res, whose new book, “Tower of Lies,” draws on the eighteen years that she spent, off and on, developing and managing construction projects for Trump, also thinks that the President is not just running for a second term—he is running from the law. “One of the reasons he’s so crazily intent on winning is all the speculation that prosecutors will go after him,” she said. “It would be a very scary spectre.” She calculated that, if Trump loses, “he’ll never, ever acknowledge it—he’ll leave the country.” Res noted that, at a recent rally, Trump mused to the crowd about fleeing, ad-libbing, “Could you imagine if I lose? I’m not going to feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country—I don’t know.” It’s questionable how realistic such talk is, but Res pointed out that Trump could go “live in one of his buildings in another country,” adding, “He can do business from anywhere.”
It turns out that, in 2016, Trump in fact made plans to leave the United States right after the vote. Anthony Scaramucci, the former Trump supporter who served briefly as the White House communications director, was with him in the hours before the polls closed. Scaramucci told me that Trump and virtually everyone in his circle had expected Hillary Clinton to win. According to Scaramucci, as he and Trump milled around Trump Tower, Trump asked him, “What are you doing tomorrow?” When Scaramucci said that he had no plans, Trump confided that he had ordered his private plane to be readied for takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport, so that the next morning he could fly to Scotland, to play golf at his Turnberry resort. Trump’s posture, Scaramucci told me, was to shrug off the expected defeat. “It was, like, O.K., he did it for the publicity. And it was over. He was fine. It was a waste of time and money, but move on.” Scaramucci said that, if 2016 is any guide, Trump would treat a loss to Biden more matter-of-factly than many people expect: “He’ll go down easier than most people think. Nothing crushes this guy.”
Mary Trump, like Res, suspects that her uncle is considering leaving the U.S. if he loses the election (a result that she regards as far from assured). If Biden wins, she suggested, Trump will “describe himself as the best thing that ever happened to this country and say, ‘It doesn’t deserve me—I’m going to do something really important, like build the Trump Tower in Moscow.’ ”
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Since our son-in-law and both grandchildren are Swiss citizens, I believe I can quite confidently say the Swiss would want nothing to do with him.
And Iceland is way too socialist for him.
My guess would be one of the Gulf States…I don’t even think Pootie wants to weighted down with him.
He’s gonna find out fast that being a loser is going to cost him a whole lot of fair weather friends. Betcha the membership at Merde-a-Barfo goes way, way, way down when he loses.
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On his way out the door the Don will burn the country down.
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No continuing resolution so the government is closed from December 11 to January 20;
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No COVID relief package, and existing protections (like no evictions) expire on January 1;
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Terminating all federal officers that he can and leaving over 1,000 vacancies that need filling immediately;
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Pardoning everyone in his family and relevant politicians; and
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Entering into contracts and leases with cronies.
And then on January 21 Mitch will castigate Biden for not having solved everything in 24 hours!
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The only thing I’m asking Santa for this year to give McTurtle a debilitating stroke – sufficient to take him out of action, but able to watch us rip up his mess.
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Ok, but he doesn’t need a private plane to leave the country. If the sitting president decides to pay a January 18th state visit to Indonesia, off he goes on AF1. And should he decide he likes the weather and overstays his schedule, there he is. The nuclear football gets switched off Jan 20 at noon, and a new one activated next to Biden.
Then a Democratic House and Senate should modify the bill signed by President Obama giving former presidents lifetime SS protection to stipulate such protection would be revoked should a former president choose to live outside U.S. borders after their term has expired.
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Contracting is only one area to watch for. Regulations may be pushed back by Executive order or other actions. They’ll take advantage of every loophole and device to favor friends that they can find. Also watch for political appointees being moved to civil service positions (if there are any decent ones left), as Trump tries to build his own fifth column. They can’t rule worth a damn, but they are masters as corruption.
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