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GOP Congressman: Trump’s Call For ‘Termination’ Of Constitution Doesn’t Disqualify Him In 2024

Republican Congressman Dave Joyce (OH) said Sunday he doesn’t agree with failed former president Donald Trump’s social media posting calling for the “termination” of the U.S. Constitution, but doesn’t think that should disqualify him from running for the White House again in 2024.

Appearing on ABC’s “The Week,” Joyce was asked by host George Stephanopoulos, “Now he’s talking about suspending the Constitution. Can you support a candidate in 2024 who’s for suspending the Constitution?”

Joyce responded:

“Well, again, it’s early. I think there are going to be a lot of people in the primary. I think, at the end of the day, you will — whoever the Republicans end up picking, I’ll fall in behind because that’s –”

Stephanopoulos interjected, “Even if it’s Donald Trump and he’s called for suspending the Constitution?”

Again, Joyce refused to say he considered what Trump wrote to be disqualifying:

“Well, again, I think it’s going to be a big field. I don’t think Donald Trump’s going to clear out the field like he did in ’16.”

Once more the host tried to pin Joyce down:

“That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking you, if he’s the nominee, will you support him?”

Joyce:

“I will support whoever the Republican nominee is. And just don’t think that, at this point, he will be able to get there because I think there’s a lot of other good quality candidates out there.”

Later in the interview, Joyce told Stephanopoulos:

“Well, you know, he says a lot of things that — but that doesn’t mean that it’s ever going to happen. So you’ve got to separate fact from fantasy. And the fantasy is that we’re going to suspend the Constitution and go backwards. We’re moving forward and we’re going to continue to move forward as a Republican majority and as a Republican conference.”

This is the same sort of gutless double-talk that led to Trump getting the nomination in 2016. Almost no Republican had the spine to call him out so he got a free pass. If that happens again in 2024 and Trump manages to win another term in the White House, this country is doomed.

Here’s the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyea8a1xN1U&feature=emb_logo

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Trump Thinks Running In 2024 Will Protect Him From Legal Problems – Here’s Why He’s Wrong

With the midterm elections now less than two months away, more and more attention is turning to what may happen in 2024 if failed, one-term former president Donald Trump decides to run for a second term in office after losing badly to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race.

Some political experts believe Trump will indeed seek the GOP nomination two years from now, if only because it helps him remain relevant and in the public eye, which he craves.

Democratic National Committee adviser Kurt Bardella notes that Trump needs constant attention:

“He’s an attention whore and everything always has to be about Donald. He has to make himself the centre of the universe so he goes out there and plays this little flirtatious ‘will he, won’t he?’ card and it’s just designed to continue to keep that conversation going.

“It’s also designed to try to keep his would-be competitors like Ron DeSantis or Mike Pence or Mike Pompeo at bay.”

But perhaps the biggest concern for the disgraced ex-president is the endless stream of legal issues that hang over his head and continue to expand, especially since he was caught hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. The Justice Department now believes that Trump has committed multiple felonies for keeping the documents in violation of federal law, including the Espionage Act.

So would a 2024 run protect Trump from a possible indictment and trial? No, but it’s almost as if he doesn’t realize that, according to Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia:

“He believes incorrectly that, if he’s a formal candidate, that will somehow protect him from legal charges. It will not. We’ve had quite a number of candidates in American history who got into legal troubles so I don’t know why he thinks that. Somebody probably said something to him once and he never let it go.

Nobody knows. He is very likely to run again but I can see scenarios in which he wouldn’t. He said himself, let’s see how my health is. He hasn’t had the best diet in the world and doesn’t look to me to be in particularly good shape.”

What will Trump do? For now, reports are that he has told the Republican National Committee he won’t announce a 2024 run until after the upcoming midterms. Ironically, it’s expected the DOJ will also make a formal announcement after the election whether or not it will charge the former president with crimes related to his document scandal.

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Sean Hannity Tells The MAGA Faithful: ‘Constitutionally’ Trump Can Run For President From Prison

Question of the Day: If you’re Donald Trump, how do you know when you’re complete screwed and likely facing time in jail?

Answer: When Fox News host Sean Hannity starts trying to reassure the MAGA faithful that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t say a person can’t run for president from prison.

That’s what Hannity told listeners to his radio show Friday, according to Media Matters, which reports that Hannity had this to say:

“What do you think the next thing that happens here is, do you think that they would try and indict the former president in the hopes of convicting him and having him in jail at the time of the next election to prevent him from running?

“Because a conviction by the way, constitutionally, would not prevent him from running for office.”

Maybe not, but it would damn sure prevent him from actually serving as president, which would raise issues of its own.

Hannity added:

“You know, this code that is being cited by Marc Elias and all these other people negates the very enumerated qualifications in the Constitution, and the specific requirements for somebody not to be eligible to run, and that would be impeachment and conviction. It doesn’t mention anything about being, you know, maybe not following every single dotted i and crossed t in the Presidential Records Act of the National Archives Act.”

Here’s a prediction I would gladly wager as much as $1,000 on: If Donald Trump is indicted, convicted, and imprisoned before the 2024 presidential election and the GOP is dumb enough to nominate him, he’ll lose by the largest margin in U.S. electoral history.

 

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George Conway Asks Twitter For Trump 2024 Campaign Slogans – Hilarity Ensues

According to some Donald Trump supporters, the FBI’s serving of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Monday guarantees that the failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president will run again in 2024.

While that may be true, the fact that Trump is under civil and criminal investigation in multiple venues certainly complicates any planned presidential campaign, if only because he’s likely to be tied up in court (or even prison) for the foreseeable future.

That led attorney George Conway (husband of former Trump administration adviser Kellyanne Conway) to ask on Twitter what people thought should be the Donald’s campaign slogan if he does indeed run for the White House two years from now.

Conway kicked off the fun with this suggestion:

Once the ball was rolling, social media took things from there.

https://twitter.com/Politidope/status/1557700270221565952?s=20&t=TvoJeohQH5-KJRZBPUyQzQ
https://twitter.com/bellemymichele/status/1557666318706515968?s=20&t=TvoJeohQH5-KJRZBPUyQzQ

Feel free to join the fun over on Twitter and add your own.

 

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Joy Reid’s Nightmare Prediction About Donald Trump Will Absolutely Terrify You

On her show Friday evening, MSNBC host Joy Reid made a Halloween prediction that is certain to terrify anyone who cares about the future of this country and the Constitutional republic failed, one-term former President Donald Trump and his GOP minions have tried to destroy.

Wearing a witch costume, Reid warned that a return of Trump in the 2024 election would be an absolute nightmare, and she even laid out how fears things might happen in the next race for the White House:

“Just picture it, an even older, weirder Donald Trump buoyed by Republicans who game the voting system.”

Reid went on to explain that Trump would actually lose the election, and that’s when the things would take a turn for the worse. GOP governors and legislatures would ignore the will of the voters and install Donald as president:

“So Trump returns but he’s unconstrained because there are no more American democratic elections. With his own little puppet, puppet Kevin McCarthy as speaker, whom he can dangle and fling to his delight, and his his cruel wicked henchman grim reaper Mitch McConnell back in charge in the Senate … there is no stopping him.”

McConnell, Reid continued, would have refused to let President Biden fill any Supreme Court vacancies, but once Trump is back in power, the GOP would install another right-wing justice and cement a 7-2 majority:

“If you think it’s racist and fascist out here now, just wait until all of Trump’s monsters are unleashed. Picture the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters and the Boogaloo Boys with real power, Trump’s own personal militia, racist sheriffs and police free to commit untold violence against anyone they please, all in the name of Trump. The land ravaged, plowed for every drop for oil and coal until it all just burns.”

Anyone who wants to make sure this country doesn’t descend into authoritarianism and fascism needs to make sure and vote in every election at every level: Local, state, and national.

To borrow a phrase from Benjamin Franklin: We have a republic, but only if we can keep it.