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Sure, there was the attempted assassination of Reagan and the fears for Obama as the first black President, but in those cases it was a lone nutter rather than a conspiracy.
How long can Trump crash the market before an angry billionaire decides to take him out? The remaining Koch brother is already pouring money into legal challenges against Trump...
Unlikely any bigger conspiracy or billionaire will try. They could wait 3.5 years and not have to bother with anything illegal.
MAGA candidates don't seem to do well without Trump, so even if a republican wins it's unlikely to be whatever this is.
If he is somehow allowed to take a dump on the constitution and get a 3rd term, maybe.
3.5 years assumes Dems have anyone who could beat him in an election. I have my doubts on that.
3.5 years assumes there will be an election at all, or a fair one. They rigged the last one, they will definitely rig the next one.
But I don't think he'll take the chance. He was heavily hated in 2020, and if anything, he is already hated even more. The mid-terms are shaping up to be a blood bath. He can't afford to lose his congressional majorities in either house, and have Dems take over even one of them, or they'll control investigative committees with subpoena and arrest power. And this time they will be much more heavily motivated to be aggressive. Americans wanted bold action from Biden, and they didn't get it, which kept the 2024 race close enough to steal. I just saw Adam Schiff in an interview, and he indicated that the Dems recognize that they didn't act "boldly" enough, and they suffered at the polls for it. It sounds like they may have learned their lesson.
So he will create a situation in which he can declare Martial Law and suspend elections, and he'll do it before the mid-terms. My prediction is that it will happen next year, in late-summer/ early fall, after a Hellish summer of violent protests around the country, that he will instigate. He will time his announcement close enough to election day that there won't be time to get it through the courts, and we will skip a mid-term election for the first time on history.
Dems will scream, but they never actually DO anything, so that will soften up the citizens to accept it when he skips the presidential election, too. Then he doesn't have to justify why he deserves a third term, his second term will just never end.
He may even start a war (you know he's itching to do that) to justify keeping Martial Law, and claim he's only doing what FDR did, and not leaving while a war is going on. That's not what happened, FDR was fairly elected 4 times, but that's the excuse he'll use, and the MAGA Nazis will accept it.
Unless something changes, he can't run again.
He just said there are ways and I mean he could run as vp and then Pres could resign etc. so yeah I mean he can’t “directly” run again.
Apparently, any and all blatantly false national emergency declarations just sail right through any checks and balances. Martial law is just as easy. Surely a fentanyl tweaker Mexican anti fa supporter will be accused of rape at some point.
He is also be 81 by then.
It's important to note that even in that scenario, he's limited to a total of 10 years. If he would take over from a VP position, he could exceed 10 total years as POTUS.
Whatever "limited" means in the current state of things is another question.
I fully expect him to try to change something, pull some underhanded thing like the VP switcheroo, or even try another insurrection (why not, he wasn't punished for the last one? ) but as of right now he can't run again.
Yeah, as if he thinks the rules apply to him, even the Constitution. Even if he were to somehow lose a heavily-rigged election, he would just pull a Maduro, and simply refuse to leave the White House. It's doubtful that anyone would do anything like physically drag him out of the White House. He would just stay there as the Dems dragged it through the courts, and then he would ignore whatever unfavorable decisions the courts make, and the Republicans in Congress would go along with it.