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LetMyPeopleVote

(158,041 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 03:32 PM Jan 24

New GOP bill would let Trump (but not Obama) run for a third term

Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2025, 07:02 PM - Edit history (1)

Rep. Andy Ogles’ bill to amend the Constitution and empower Donald Trump to seek a third term will inevitably fail. That doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant.
https://bsky.app/profile/mynewsfeed.link/post/3lgipofeqzc2w



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-gop-bill-let-trump-not-obama-run-third-term-rcna189099

About a week after Donald Trump was elected to a second term, the president-elect spoke at a House Republican conference meeting and made a comment that raised a few eyebrows. “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we’ve got to figure something else out,’” Trump said, presumably as some kind of joke.

He might very well have been kidding, though the Republican has made similar comments several times in recent years, and he’s not alone. Last month, Steve Bannon talked up the idea of Trump running again in 2028 — he suggested it might be constitutionally permissible, despite the plain language of the 22nd Amendment — and Fox News host Trey Gowdy, a former Republican member of Congress, had similar comments on the air.

It’s against this backdrop that NBC News reported on the third day of the president’s final term.

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced a resolution that would amend the Constitution and allow Trump to seek a third term in office. ‘This amendment would allow President Trump to serve three terms, ensuring that we can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs,’ Ogles said in a statement [Thursday].


Let’s make one thing perfectly clear at the outset: Ogles proposed constitutional amendment will not go anywhere. In every Congress, plenty of lawmakers unveil silly proposals, knowing full well that they stand no chance of success, and this measure from the Tennessee Republican clearly falls into that category.....

Given everything we’re seeing about the state of Republican Party politics in 2025, this race to the bottom is likely to get worse before it gets better.
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LaMouffette

(2,397 posts)
3. Fortunately, the way he looks these days, that would not be for very long. But then the GOP would try a "Weekend at
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 03:41 PM
Jan 24

Bernie's" thing with his dead, decaying corpse. Ew.

LaMouffette

(2,397 posts)
9. Or, most likely, when he dies, they will start a conspiracy theory that he did NOT really die, but was driven into exile
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jan 26

by the evil Democrats, and is STILL the president, governing from a secret location. The QAnon folks will eat it up!

Or, even more likely, when he dies they will say Democrats took a hit out and had him killed.

Fox News has broken whatever trust their Republican viewers ever had in members of our party. Unless Fox News and rightwing media are defanged, that trust will be broken forever.

Irish_Dem

(63,756 posts)
10. Kind of like Putin right now.
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 12:00 PM
Jan 26

Said to be in hiding, and has used body doubles before for public appearances.

His own oligarchs hate him for ruining the Russian economy, the RU military not happy with him,
and Ukraine would love to get their hands on him. And rumors of serious health problems for years.

This would explain why Trump has turned on him and no longer fears him.

Who knows what the truth is.

Srkdqltr

(7,975 posts)
7. Assuming he is still able, assuming..........if ran who would stop him? If he got the votes, constitution? who cares?
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 04:57 PM
Jan 24

Who could physically stop him?

LetMyPeopleVote

(158,041 posts)
11. Federal prosecutors withdraw from investigation targeting GOP's Andy Ogles
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 03:59 PM
Jan 31

Last week, the congressman unveiled a proposal to allow Trump to run for a third term. This week, he’s no longer under investigation.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lh2l2ioeis2c

Last week, Republican Rep. Andy Ogles unveiled a proposal to allow Trump to run for a third term.

This week, prosecutors withdrew from Ogles' criminal investigation.

That's quite a coincidence.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/federal-prosecutors-withdraw-investigation-targeting-gops-andy-ogles-rcna190197

In other words, it was possible that Ogles introduced an absurd proposal to empower Trump to run again in 2028 because of his affection for the president, knowing full well it will never become law. But it was also possible that he was trying to flatter Trump and get his attention amid an investigation that might lead to a criminal indictment.

Just eight days after Ogles unveiled his measure, it appears there’s some news out of Tennessee. WTVF, the CBS affiliate in Nashville, reported:

Federal prosecutors based in Nashville have withdrawn from the criminal investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, an unprecedented move that could signal plans by the Trump administration to drop the case against a Republican ally. With no explanation, Acting U.S. Attorney Brian McGuire filed a notice late Thursday to withdraw Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert S. Levine and J. Christopher Suedekum from an on-going legal dispute over the FBI’s access to evidence seized from Ogles last year.


.....The investigation was ongoing when there was a dispute between Ogles’ lawyers and the U.S. attorney’s office over access to evidence on his phone. That matter ended up in court, but before it could be fully adjudicated, federal prosecutors withdrew from the case, raising questions about whether the investigation will continue as Trump and his team take control of federal law enforcement.

Of course, if the investigation does collapse, there will be no shortage of questions about how much partisan politics might've played a role.

We’ll learn soon enough what becomes of the Ogles controversy, but it’s worth emphasizing that the president has already demonstrated an unnerving affection for Republican members of Congress who have been accused of corruption. In his first term, Trump pardoned two former GOP lawmakers who’d already been convicted, and this week, he celebrated the demise of the case against a different former Republican congressman who’d been found guilty by a jury.

The new trump DOJ will reward trump's friends and punish trump's enemies.
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