Anyway, I wanted to put my unoriginal prediction out there before it become reality. When Trump was first elected president, I immediately thought that he would not last a year. A part of this is because I think he was as surprised as most of America about his election (or nomination for that matter). At the time, I figured that this was a brilliant political move by the Republican party as Trump gets elected, steps down for "health" reasons, and suddenly Mike Pence (a more traditional party-liner) is leading the country with a Republican Congress and a Democratic party who is at least happy that he's "not Trump." I really figured that the true rigors of the job would wear Trump down--I had not anticipated the amount of time he would spend outside of the White House and on the golf course.
Now it looks like Trump might have to step down for legal reasons as the Russia scandal is peeling back like an onion (sorry, Clinton haters, but the Russia scandal is not the one you think it is). I see the result as being quite similar. Trump pulls a Nixon, and Pence immediately pulls a Ford. The Republicans use the rallying momentum of Trump support (despite the evidence) and the shadow of gun confiscation to keep their hold on Congress, and we have President Pence (whom people are less likely to hate) with a Republican Congress (whom people still rate below cockroaches on surveys of likeability). How else was he going to become president?
Now, my predictions are rarely right, but I think Trump will be as relieved as nearly everyone else on the day he wakes up no longer president.