Speaking of his adoration for Trump, the former chief strategist said ‘he’s on fire, and I’m a huge supporter. I want to see him again in 2028’

Summary

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon revealed that MAGA operatives are “working on” securing Donald Trump a third presidential term in 2028, despite constitutional term limits.

In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Bannon said, “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,” suggesting they’re exploring ways to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.

Recently released from prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress, Bannon placed second in a CPAC straw poll for 2028 GOP nominees behind JD Vance, while maintaining tensions with Trump adviser Elon Musk.

  • Australis13@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    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

    Unfortunately, there’s an obvious loophole right there that they will argue for. The 22nd Amendment doesn’t say that Trump can’t be VP and take over as President on Day One. It just restricts how many times he can be elected as the President. He could theoretically run as VP and have an enabler run as President an indefinite number of times - there are no limits to the number of times somebody can be elected as VP: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/

      • Australis13@fedia.io
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        1 day ago

        Ah, good catch. I’d forgotten about that. Apparently the 12th Amendment should narrow that loophole significantly:

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

        Honestly, the whole insurrection thing should disqualify him anyway, but again they’d probably argue that he’s not ineligible for the office of President, he just can’t be elected to it due to the 22nd Amendment.