President Donald Trump declared Sunday night that he was the new “acting president of Venezuela” by sharing a doctored image of his online biography bearing the new title — a declaration that produced shockwaves for onlookers.“He’s spiraling into a singularity of narcissistic terror over [Jeffrey] E...
  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    He also doesn’t meet the constitutional requirements to be President of the United States,

    Oh shiz, I’m intrigued. What in the constitution of the United States does he violate regarding being the president?

      • Drusas@fedia.io
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        4 months ago

        There is no reason a person with felony convictions can’t be president.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I’m thinking that should probably be added into the constitution after this…

          • Potatar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            ok done(new law).

            Afterwards: Trump-likes gave everyone a presidental felony (new law or do what they did to blacks in the past, sprinkle some weed or something) and then they pardoned themselves (new law), now they are the only eligible people.

            or do they stop at this first new law when they are already in power?

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment:

      No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

      It doesn’t require that he be convicted of anything related to an insurrection, only that he had engaged in one, which automatically gives him a disability against holding any office. Since Trump incited the insurrection, and refused to call for the National Guard to protect the houses of Congress, I think it would be a huge stretch to say that he didn’t engage in the insurrection.

      Another part of the Amendment gives Congress the power to enforce the Amendment, and that is something that Congress chose not to do. That’s why Trump hasn’t been stopped from being president.

      But choosing not to enforce a law doesn’t mean that it is legal to break the law.

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You could add the fact he says he was elected 3 times which isn’t legal, it’s phrased as elected twice makes you ineligible to hold office on a third election. Doesn’t say anything about actually taking or holding office.