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The Constitution forbids running for a third term, not that Trump cares.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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      29 minutes ago

      You mean like pedophilia, accepting bribes and 34 other felonies?

      You think anyone in the 1930s was saying, “wait, genocide is illegal Adolf!”?

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      “Not legal” does not always mean criminal.

      He is constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term. He can post all the slop he wants, it doesn’t change that fact.

      Should he actually file to run again, the States (who actually run the elections) are within their rights to deny the application. Should some states let him run anyway, that will be challenged by voters (and perhaps by candidates). His campaign would fight those denials, and courts should just dismiss the candidacy out of hand, but some courts have made batshit crazy rulings before.

      Even if all the courts rule against him, though, I am not aware of any statute that says it’s illegal to say you will run in an election you might be Ineligible for. If anything, courts will uphold that as free speech.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    You all are missing the most obvious flex: one of his sons is going to run, on the sole platform of “My dad will really be running things, I won’t even make him move out”. Maybe both sons run, on a Trump/Trump ticket, only all the signs say “Trump/Trump/Trump”.

    Donald Trump will have his dream job: all of the power and influence (and money!) Of the Presidency, none of the actual responsibility. Why be President when you can own the Presidency?

    Didn’t Putin do something similar? He was term limited out of the Presidency, but got his buddy elected President, and then he got himself elected to their Parliament and became Prime Minister. He then got himself re-elected as President, then got some Constitutional things passed to ensure that he never has to give it up again.

    But Donald Trump doesn’t care about actually governing, so he doesn’t need to run for Congress. All he has to do is install someone as the next President who is loyal to him, and him alone. What better candidate than Eric, whose only success in life is having the right parents?

  • residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    He will MitchMcConnel the presidency and be president for life - post mortem. No one will see him and whatever dark forces are present will pull the strings. His asinine social posts will continue by LLM and this will be the justification of his existence. The supreme Court will establish his beyond 4 years / 2 term limitation. I should become a horror story writer.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I almost want to see it because it would be hilarious if the outcome were to be that Obama beats Donvict.

        Their brains broke about Obama having two terms, but they told themselves all kinds of nonsense narratives about how McCain and Romney were “RINOs”, etc…seeing their god-emperor beaten by Obama would be pretty tough narrative to spin…