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Summary

Steve Bannon has suggested Donald Trump could run for president again in 2028, arguing the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit might not apply since Trump’s terms weren’t consecutive.

Speaking at the New York Young Republican Club, Bannon dismissed legal barriers, echoing claims that Trump’s 2020 loss was illegitimate.

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, explicitly prohibits anyone from being elected president more than twice, making such a scenario highly improbable without a constitutional amendment.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney predicted Trump’s Vice President-elect JD Vance will likely be the GOP’s 2028 nominee.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Twenty-Second Amendment Section 1

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.

Section 2

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since the amendment specifically uses the word 'elected', and Trump claims he won the election in 2020, that means he was ineligible to run for president this year and therefore the election results are invalid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Haha! You obviously didn't see that someone snuck into the National Archives and scrawled "in a row" in Sharpie after "more than twice". How do we know that was not just a late amendment?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what you’re saying is - it’s pretty fucking clear. Steve Bannon is, as per usual, completely full of shit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Of course he is. I mean, there's not going to be en election in 2028 at all.