“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News, in which he also lashed out at Vladimir Putin and threatened to bomb Iran.
When asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump, the US president replied: “that’s one” method.
He later told reporters on board Air Force One that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged.”
However any attempt to remain in office would be legally suspect and it is unclear how seriously Trump might pursue the idea.
“This is yet another escalation in his clear effort to take over the government and dismantle our democracy,” Daniel Goldman, a New York Democrat who served as lead counsel for Trump’s first impeachment, said.
Steve Bannon, a former Trump strategist, called for the president to run again during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month.
Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, said “there are no credible legal arguments for him to run for a third term.”
Derek Muller, a professor of election law at Notre Dame, noted that the 12th Amendment, which was ratified in 1804, says “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
“I don’t think there’s any ‘one weird trick’ to getting around presidential term limits,” Muller said.
Trump has mused before about serving longer than two terms before, generally with jokes to friendly audiences.
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