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jmowreader

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9. I'm going to throw a wrench in the Speaker path

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:53 AM

Mar 2025

According to the rules of presidential succession, if someone in the line of succession isn’t eligible to be president that person is skipped over. So…let’s say Trump wanted to make Elon Musk president. He appoints him Secretary of State, then cuts a deal with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Chuck Grassley that Trump, JD Vance, Johnson and Grassley resign simultaneously. Musk isn’t eligible to be president, so Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent becomes President.

The reality is that barring an impeachment conviction, a pissed-off MAGAt shooting him dead, Putin throwing him out of a window or Satan calling him home, Trump’s reign of terror ends at noon on January 20, 2029 - and he has to accept that.

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Tamping down the third term hype for Trump (good legal analysis as to why trump cannot run for third term) [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 OP

tRump manipulating dominance of news cycle to drown Signalgate treason. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #1

FelonTraitorTrump's Weapons of Mass Distraction Miami Blue Mar 2025 #2

Even if it were possible.... Mountainguy Mar 2025 #3

This is sheer idiocy. Trump will NOT try to run for a third term Wiz Imp Mar 2025 #4

As I said elsewhere on DU, he's out on or before 1/20/29..... lastlib Mar 2025 #5

I'd like to remind everyone... Putin once stepped down and Medvedev was President for a while. WarGamer Mar 2025 #6

Trump thinks that Vance will run then "pass the torch" to Trump. LisaL Mar 2025 #7

If the Supreme Court rules that the 22nd doesn't apply to Trump over the "elected" language... Self Esteem Mar 2025 #8

I'm going to throw a wrench in the Speaker path jmowreader Mar 2025 #9

Hell, I'm old enough to remember "Immunity for a President, NEVER". republianmushroom Mar 2025 #10

MaddowBlog-Despite the Constitution, Trump says he's 'not joking' about eyeing a third term LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #11

How about this? TxGuitar Mar 2025 #12

This would not run afoul of the 12th Amendment or the 22nd Amendment LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #13

I also doubt that trump will ge around for a third term LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #14