President Donald Trump by no means misses an opportunity to foreshadow a 3rd time period.
In the course of the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Trump randomly urged he would run for an additional time period regardless of others telling him he couldn’t.
“They say I can’t run again. That’s the expression. Sir. And somebody said, ‘I don’t think you can.’ Ooh!” Trump stated, chuckling.
This isn’t the primary, second, and even fifth time the convicted felon has shrugged off the twenty second Modification—which limits presidents to 2 phrases—and urged he keep in workplace previous his time.
With three years, 11 months, and round two weeks left till one other president is predicted to take energy, folks have questioned if that’s sufficient time for the person identified for fraud, grifting, and mendacity to think about a strategy to deceive America to its core.
Politico, the outlet Trump has focused with a brand new false conspiracy idea, compiled an inventory of how the president may make a seize for energy within the subsequent few years.
He may generate a motion to repeal the twenty second Modification by passing one other modification—which might be nearly unattainable since it could require 38 states, together with many blue states, to ratify the brand new modification.
Trump may additionally exploit a possible “vice president” loophole within the modification. The concept goes that Trump can be elected as vp, then the president—say, JD Vance—would resign and permit Trump to instantly ascend again to the presidency.
Another choice is to easily run for the presidency once more on the wager that the conservative-packed Supreme Courtroom wouldn’t cease him. The courtroom has already granted him king-like immunity from felony prosecutions, so it may not be a nasty wager for Trump.
Lastly, he may simply outright refuse to go away, testing or ending American democracy. In any case, it’s an concept he tossed round concerning the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
As Each day Kos has beforehand reported, one Tennessee Republican is making an attempt to make the trail to a 3rd Trump time period simpler to attain. Final month, Rep. Andy Ogles proposed laws to amend the Structure, permitting Trump to run for a 3rd time period.
Curiously sufficient, Ogles phrased the laws in such a approach that it could solely permit two residing presidents a shot at serving once more: Trump and Biden. Presidents who’ve served out two consecutive phrases don’t qualify for reelection, the laws says. Sorry, Obama.
Ogles was extensively criticized in his house state of Tennessee when he launched the invoice, given a faculty capturing had taken place in his district the day earlier than.
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