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Trump could still be barred from running again under the 14th Amendment!

Two historical precedents, both involving federal judges, seem to make it clear that only a simple majority of the Senate is needed to disqualify the president from holding office again.

Sweet! It only needs a couple of defectors from the Republicans and that's Trump gone forever馃コ
DoubleRings51-55, F
He should be barred from everything except maybe breathing that鈥檚 it.
Snuffy195761-69, M
I think it is hilarious people are so afraid of Trump they don't want him to run again LOL
SW-User
@Snuffy1957 bad loser 馃き Trump lost. Learn to cope 馃槑馃憤
Snuffy195761-69, M
@SW-User We are ALL losers.. you will find that out !!
SomeMichGuyM
@Snuffy1957 Trump has been a disaster. The right wing media have not showed how much damage to our international reputation he has done.

If you want to stand up to China, it's going to take some doing, and require a coalition. The events of the last 4 yrs, and esp. of last week, have made our claim of leadership questionable in the eyes of our friends AND others.
hunkalove61-69, M
Four years from now Trump will be dead or in prison or both. I'm amazed he hasn't dropped dead yet. He looks like warmed-over death.
Harriet0341-45, F
Don't panic, he'll be in prison!!!
MrSmooTh31-35, M
He's not going to run again anyway. We wouldn't vote for him.
Uh huh. But do you still need a 2/3 vote to convict first?
@SomeMichGuy Hmm.

As for a conviction, I'd much rather see Trump criminally convicted by a jury than enduring another political "trial" by the Senate that could be "written off" as purely political, even if I thought the Senate would convict, which I'm not sure could ever happen.

As for Trump taking his own life, while I don't know the man personally, I haven't seen him ever show any indications that he would do it, and really doubt he's capable of it. I know the suicide is selfish act thing, but that usually gets into play in terms of thinking about the survivors, and I've never really seen any indication that Trump is motivated by anything other than himself and to a small degree, his perception by others. Also, my guess is he'd see that choice as weak and something that a loser would do. Trump, for whatever else he is, is a survivor, and his life history shows that he'll do whatever it takes and screw whomever it takes to do it.
SomeMichGuyM
@MistyCee It was reported shortly after the election was known to be lost, in Nov., that Trump was acting sthg similar to how he is now acting, and said, "Why couldn't the military make it easy and just leave a gun in a drawer?".

He is in uncharted waters, as his niece said, and being dealt the public blow of not only having Biden & Harris sworn in, but not having ANY r么le in it saying--like a petulant child!--he won't come, and having everyone GLAD he is not going to be there...

Add to this the further public releases of the questionings he'll endure, etc., the publishing of more of his financial problems, etc., the trials, the creditors, the crumbling of the physical Trump empire...

I don't think he'll be able to simply narcissist it away, put a spin on it, because he will have lost power, prestige, podium/bully pulpit, properties, prosperity...and *people*.

So, confronted by that...yeah, I think he is pretty likely to commit self-murder.
@SomeMichGuy I'm still not really that convinced, but hey, it worked out for Trump's role model, the guy who Godwin used to say shouldn't be mentioned.

Of course, Godwin himself later added that his Law should not apply to Trump.
LeoWulf36-40, M
Conviction is needed.
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