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Trump Just Revealed That if He Wins in 2024, He’s Not Leaving the White House in 2028

There are a few things we know would be bad for everyone, and this is one of them.

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Two hundred and fifty years ago (roughly), a bunch of smart guys got together and built us a country. Now, they didn’t quite get it perfect the first time, and we’ve had changes to our founding document since then, but it was pretty solid.

And really, the underpinning idea behind America itself was to get away from having a king. Not a small task, since staying in power seems to be the main goal of those who ever obtain it.

But Donald Trump wants to be a king. It’s not just that he made that clear when he was the President, but that he’s now basically announced it publicly.

During all of his legal woes, Trump has maintained that, rather than the indictments against him stemming from public citizens accusing him of crimes, it has actually been President Joe Biden “weaponizing” the Justice Department in order to get him out of the equation. That of course is as far from the truth as you can imagine. But that’s what Trump wants to do if he makes it back into the White House.

And that’s not all: He would do it in order to get more time in office than is even allowed by the Constitution.

During a speech on Friday night, Trump said he intended to use the strategy of pursuing political opponents, and that he would do it in order to block candidates who ran against him after he won the second term, meaning he would seek at least a third.

“That means that if I win and somebody wants to run against me, I call my Attorney General and I say ‘Listen, indict him.'”

That’s the talk of someone who runs a banana republic.

And you can take it straight from the horse’s mouth, unfortunately. Trump already tried to have Joe Biden arrested in 2020 and would have succeeded if his Attorney General at the time, Bill Barr, had gone along with the plan.

Trump said that if he’s the president and someone wants to run against him…he will have his AG indict him. But if, God help us, Trump does win in 2024, he wouldn’t be allowed to run again anyway. Two terms, that’s all a president gets. So basically Trump is saying that if he wins in 2024, he ain’t leaving until he’s six feet under.

But it also means that he would be looking for a third term against the will of the people.

If Donald Trump wins in 2024, America can expect to see him for a long time coming. Many on Twitter heard exactly what Trump was saying:

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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