• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 days ago

      Yea I have the feeling that he’ll use this term to make sure he won’t be going to jail when he’s out of office, I just don’t see him as really wanting to run. Pretty sure he said as much during his campaign (like everything he says take that with a grain of salt)

      that or he’ll die inshallah

      • ped_xing [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        I think there’s a real chance he’ll pardon himself and bounce within a week. Even the fake president-for-uninterested-oldsters level of engagement is clearly too much for him at this point.

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      He can’t remove it anyway. That would need 2/3 of Congress.

      Maybe he could simply ignore the term limit and have the Supreme Court rule in his favor (maybe making up some bullshit related to non-consecutive terms despite the 22nd being clear enough that that shouldn’t work), but yeah I doubt he’d even want it.