4mo ago

Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

www.independent.co.uk

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.

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Bannon placed second in a CPAC strawpoll
My first thought: That'd be great, there's no way he'd win
My second thought: Democrats would find a way.
- My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
  Remember, the overwhelming majority of the country thought the exact same thing about Trump in 2016.
  
  as parent intimated: Democrats will find a way. :-(
- Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
  
  i mean let's give Putin some credit too, his disinformation campaigns and bot farms have been a master class in manipulating public perception. that's to say nothing of the Twitter/X situation
Read: They still don't have a replacement for Trump.
- Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump's control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don't know how to replace that. Yet.
  
  Musk is hoping to be next. Yes, constitution doesn't allow it, but they don't intend to follow it anyway.
- Read: the Republican Party is dead without drumpf
They're putting a LOT of faith in those arteries holding up that long LMFAO
- I swear to God you can hear all the grease caked inside his body when he speaks. That wheezing, wandering, droning voice has had a few too many Big Macs.
  
  We should go fund me a lifetime supply of hamburgers and fries.
  
  Amphetamines.
  During the last election he went on a big ramble about how Biden is probably on amphetamines for stamina. Sounded like he was telling on himself.
We’ll see what the definition of term limit is
It's right there in the amendment:
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.
Donald Trump was elected twice. He is ineligible to be elected again.
- Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.
  
  Can't wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn't specify who enforces that the president can't be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can't run.
  That's what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.
- If I had to put money on it, I'd guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he's just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen
  
  Or he’ll start a war and declares martial law
- Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of "vote for me and I'll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again". It'd need the supreme court to decide if that "and" is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn't be surprised if that worked
  
  This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn't bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.
  Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.
  The absolute best case scenario is that they're just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I've not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.
- It says "elected", but what is the president isn't elected? They will find a way, and with recent reality bending Supreme Court decisions or won't even be so hard.
- Ok ok, but hear me out - what if we didn't have elections. No problem!
- 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/
  
  Isn't there also a rule that says you can't be VP if you already can't be Pres?
- According to Trump and many many in the GOP, he was elected three times.
  After two years into this term, he will be disqualified twice from running again.
- Yeah but he was impeached so the first time doesn't count /s
- You don't think they're covering that contingency?
  They rules they have formulated and want to pass as law are that the first two terms must not be consecutive. This would preclude Obama from having a third term.
  
  I remember reading they want to adjust it to "two consecutive terms". Which would invalidate Obama through their mental gymnastics
- Just like Biden used the SCOTUS immunity ruling to legally assassinate trump?
  Democrats will not ever break precedent.
- I don't think they mean presidents (plural) could run for the third term.
  There will also be a rule if one of the contestants is going for their third term it's an automatic win & no opposing runners can join the game.
Nope, that is a declaration of war
Likely scenario:
They'll first try to get two thirds of both the senate and the congress, and to a constitution overhaul in the style of Hungary. If that fails, there's always the option for a martial-law, or just circumventing the whole of the constitution.
- To be honest, the most likely scenario in my mind is some form of war declaration or emergency, suspending elections has precedent during wartime.
  
  A very handy use of the expansionalist dreams of GOP, but more likely is that Trump will just use the war on immigrants as an excuse to suspend elections.
  
  Is there precedence for that in the US? I can't find an example of US elections being suspended during war time, even the 1964 election happened during a war period.
  
  So ramp up tension with either Canada or Mexico; then manufacture some incident and invade to "protect democracy" or some shit....bada bing bada boom, a nice little war and the ability to declare martial law.
- Maybe make him speaker of the house then have a stand in prez and vp step down?
  I know a vp has to have presidential eligibility to be elected, which Trump wouldn't have at the end of this term. But Im not aware of the same restriction on the speaker
  
  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.
  That's the wording. It looks pretty iron clad, if you care at all about the rule of law.
Time to 2A up to protect yourselves America. Only a copper jacketed hollow point between freedom and tyranny.
FYI I know nothing about ammo other than what I hear in movies or TV.
Trump will be 79 in 2 months, at 83 he himself wont be around to run in 2028, but MAGA would still be there and that's what we should be fighting. I mean sadly and similarly Bernie Sanders wouldnt be around to run in 2028, but his movement is what we should be carrying
Hey yo, while we're cutting jobs I heard the secret service costs the government billions and isn't even secret, we best tell Musk on X and use a thinky emoji to show how smart that observation is.
A strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days will ensure Trump is president for life.
Time to really get to know our communities and our people in the military. The only justice imaginable coming from this is a coup in one form or another to oust them. Anyone in the military that is actually on board with this needs to be purged by the rank and file.
He wants to be just like putin. He should be in jail!
Third term?
\ Again with the Russian model - why not be more imaginative and declare yourself some new made-up dictator name (& just be a dictator, no terms, no red & blue, only polished golden ass), like something Borat would come up with.
His supreme big handedness of the Lord, the shitter of golden diarrhea, he who licks no domestic butts, the holy eternal MAGAer, the trumpest with the mostest absolute dumptruck ass, senior car salesmen.
- Musk is already occupying that position.
Anyone surprised at this is unqualified for political office.
- The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
  I don't think they're gonna be too worried by that.
- The more people say it's impossible, the less.they consider the options that, though wayyy out there, are how they have found ways to do what they've already done.
  There may not be a single obvious loophole, but a cascade of loops -a Möbius loophole -is how they approach things.
  Do not forget his remarks recently about the big mid term surprise and blue states : "they may disappear off the map completely"
  Not sure how you feel about that, but even in trump's verbal diarrhoea, that seems a terrifyingly ominous statement.
Fascist pricks are doing something fascistic, what?!
Maga operatives? Does he mean Gavin Newsom?
Meh...what else is new? Let's just keep clogging the news with more shit. This is his tactic anyways.
@MicroWave "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!"
"Shocked! Shocked!"
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- Why do people keep responding to this like laws and tradition meananything?
  What does anyone think will be different this time??
  The leader of an insurrection delayed investigations until getting reelected, threatened and fired people who dared to look at him sideways, and is unapologetically defying a judge's orders while using his sentient moneybag to openly bribe politicians who say they're willing to impeach a judge for not agreeing with the president (going against the warnings of the supreme court).
  Where are our papers and pens going to get the power to do anything about it when all the power sits with the president? I've said it before and I'll say it again, anyone who pushes back hard enough is going to experience The Night of the Long Knives.
  I genuinely think we are days to weeks away from seeing a politician become a political prisoner. And even then, headlines will ask "are we inching closer to fascism?" And people will say, "this is what the laws are for. We just have to wait for the system to work."
  Lex Luthor has taken over Metropolis and is killing anyone standing up to him, Lois Lane is sobbing over Clark Kent's mangled corpse while Jimmy Olsen assures her that Superman will show up any moment now and everything will be okay. At that same time, Perry White is telling the printer to run the headline "Luthor Shoots 61 Citizens in one day, Experts say This Could be Illegal"
Isn't it great that all of these traitors to democracy are showing themselves and their plans in plain sight? Now the American people just need to decide how to respond.
Steve Bacon: aka the Baron Harkonnen of real life

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