Trump himself seems to acknowledge this but seems to be making the argument of "it's not fair I got cheated, they should make it up to me by letting me run again".
Well, no. The Constitution is very clear. If you want to run again you're gonna need a Constitutional amendment.
The vast majority of things that Trump does are things that people actually think he can do.
I mean, it is theoretically possible that he becomes an absolute dictator. But so many people would have to change their minds for that to happen that in practice it is very unlikely.
Guess this’ll be the ultimate test of just how compromised SCOTUS is.
red-iron-pine•1h ago
given just how many felonies he's facing if he loses -- probably gonna happen.
krapp•56m ago
Jtsummers•55m ago
iLemming•37m ago
We've been saying this stuff since 2016, and it feels like some aerotherapeutic, self-convincing gibberish that a victim chained in the basement whispers over and over. And when the rapist comes kicking in the door, they be like "but, but... this ain't right..."
We should stop hypothesizing and assume he'd do the worst, because as the (recent) history shows, he'd do much worse than anyone ever expected. Because the guy is a psychopath. He doesn't care about laws, words, or ethical norms.
hax0ron3•32m ago
Jtsummers•29m ago
Hypothesizing? He has failed to pardon people convicted in state courts already, because he doesn't have the power to do it. This isn't some untested hypothetical. He issued a pardon for Peters in Colorado and it didn't stand. Why? Because she was convicted in a state court.
Stop spewing nonsense.