President Donald Trump on Friday again suggested he should be permitted to illegally serve a third term as president based on his baseless claim that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was “stolen” from him.
Trump was just a few minutes into remarks at a campaign-style rally in Corpus Christi, Texas when he began rattling off a list of purported accomplishments from the first year of his second term in the White House.
“I’ve been here one year. Think of it, one year, little bit more than one year. Now, time flies. Time flies,” he said.
Even if you were to concede the election was stolen from him (which of course it was not) it does not exempt him from the 22nd amendment. Two terms, that’s it. Period.
In fact, a plain text reading of the amendment would suggest that– if he was “rightfully elected” in 2020 as he claims– he would not have been eligible to serve the term he’s currently in.
You violate enough constitutional provisions and one more doesn’t seem like such a big deal