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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
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-gop-bill-let-trump-not-obama-run-third-term-rcna189099
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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Lovie777
(16,560 posts)Irish_Dem
(63,756 posts)LaMouffette
(2,397 posts)Bernie's" thing with his dead, decaying corpse. Ew.
Irish_Dem
(63,756 posts)Let Putin and the oligarchs call the shots.
LaMouffette
(2,397 posts)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)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.
Wonder Why
(4,925 posts)chicoescuela
(1,839 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,975 posts)Who could physically stop him?
LetMyPeopleVote
(158,041 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(158,041 posts)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
This week, prosecutors withdrew from Ogles' criminal investigation.
That's quite a coincidence.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/federal-prosecutors-withdraw-investigation-targeting-gops-andy-ogles-rcna190197
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.