Summary
Donald Trump allies, including Tucker Carlson and Laura Loomer, are accusing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of orchestrating a “coup” against Trump’s agenda by scheduling early Senate GOP leadership elections.
Carlson, on social media, urged his followers to support Florida Senator Rick Scott as the only candidate aligned with Trump, warning that other candidates oppose Trump’s policies.
Loomer criticized Republicans for not addressing McConnell’s move sooner, suggesting that calls for party “unity” have enabled this alleged attempt to undermine Trump’s incoming administration.
This made me think about a possible third term for Trump, this is without changing the rules.
Trump completes his next term, then campaigns again, this time for vice president, with a puppet as a running mate.
The puppet will, shortly after taking office, declare to step down for health reasons and Trump will be president again.
There is as far as I know, no rule preventing this.
The Vice President must be eligible to be president. Obama is not eligible for the VP position.
Representative Trump could make it work though.
The reality, however, is that they’ll just ignore the Constitution.
Huh, I did not know that, thanks!
This is not quite accurate. The vice president must be eligible to be the President, not to be elected President. The 22nd amendment has some very specific language.
“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.”
It prevents someone from being elected President, but does not make the person ineligible to be the President since it only restricts that one method of gaining the office. A person can definitely become President through succession even if they have served their full two terms already…at least by the constitution as written.
You can’t be vice president if you’re not eligible to be president, it’s in the constitution. 12th amendment.
The Supreme Court will rule that nobody has standing to bring a challenge based on the 12th Amendment. Kind of like what they did to the Emoluments Clause.
The reason I made my comment was due to this paper:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/
I hope I am wrong or that we won’t have to find out…
Interesting, thank you!
Also known as the Medwedew move. But I doubt Trump will manage one full term, let alone two.
If they have control of the house, Supreme Court, senate, and presidency then they can just change laws or ratify whatever they want including term limits for president. That’s the way I would see if going.
He’s 78 and displaying moderate dementia symptoms. I wouldn’t worry about a third term.