• Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    the stupidest motherfucker in the country can do the math to see it’s unconstitutional

    It’s not at all unconstitutional for Trump to enjoy a third term as president. All the Constitution says is that he can’t be elected a third time. There’s nothing that says he cannot run as VP and then succeed into POTUS once Vance steps down.

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      Sounds like you’ve read Amendment 22:

      No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

      But you definitely haven’t read Amendment 12:

      But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

      No, the bullshit technicality he’s trying to pull out of his ass is still unconstitutional.

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        But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

        You really think this is bulletproof?

        Have Trump run for Speaker. Hell, have him appointed as secretary of agriculture and have the people above resign. Its really not that difficult when your constitution is held together with bubblegum and pinky promises.

        There is nothing in the constitution that says he cant enjoy a third term.

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      That’s not true. If a vice president assumes the office, that still counts as a term even though he’s not elected. I also believe there is a stipulation that no one disqualified from holding the presidency can be VP, though idk what is spelled out and what is just interpretation.