Trump -attorney has studied options for third presidential term

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Annie Linskey, Josh Dawsey, The Wall Street Journal 5 min Read 02 Apr 2025, 04:43 PM ist Boris EpshTeyn, in a pink tie, is seen in 2024. Photo: Jabin Botsford/Press Pool Summary The recent remarks of the president have begun a long period of time and start a few Republicans. Washington – Donald Trump’s lawyer, Boris EpshTeyn, made a daring allegation at the end of 2023: Trump would not necessarily be limited to two terms of office. In October 2023, EpshTeyn spoke to a co -worker at the center of Washington on the idea that Trump would be a crippled duck if he won the 2024 election. EpshTeyn said he studied the law – and he believed Trump could find a way to run again in 2028, according to the person who met Epshteyn. At the time, the co -worker thought that the comments were amusing, even though EpshTeyn was serious. The person told others in Washington and joked that Epshteyn had already started planning a third term even before Trump won the 2024 Republican primary school. But 18 months later, the person looks back at the conversation with alarm, as Trump openly ends toys with the remaining offices after his term. EpshTeyn, who is now the president’s outside advocate, did not make a comment for this article. Steven Cheung, the director of communications in the White House, said in a statement that “a third term” is too early to think “. Trump said over the weekend that he was “not joking” to stay in office after his current term ended in January 2029, and a long cunning debate in Washington began how serious he was to look for a third term. In an interview with NBC News, the president showed unnamed “methods” to finish in office for another four years. Trump would be 82 at the end of his second term. Since the first time the presidency won in 2016, Trump has followed the issue of the remaining two term, flirted and otherwise raised. The casual style the president uses to use a serious topic has turned the idea into a Trump-shaped Rorschach test: Those who fear and do not like him see bright red flashy warning lights and many people worshiping him pull it off or laugh. Some of Trump’s advisers reject critics’ concerns about the remarks of the president. He jokes, they say; They troll the media and liberals, argue them. Others close to the president claim to shift attention from revealing that his national security advisor included a journalist on a group tek chat in which senior officials discussed a sensitive military strike. Trump recently told a friend that he made such remarks to “crazy the media”, the friend remembered the Wall Street Journal. But some senior Republicans have said privately that they take Trump to his word and believe that he can try to stay in office. In interviews, they noted that law firms, universities, corporations and lawmakers so far in his second term had little resistance to the president’s policy, and they said that efforts to stop him in the coming years could become more difficult if he continued to gain power. The fact that EpshTeyn discussed the matter with others shows that some of Trump’s closest advisers also investigated the idea. Trump is constitutionally prohibited from being elected to a third term. The 22nd amendment of the Constitution says that presidents cannot be elected to more than two provisions. Marc Short, who was the staff chief of Trump’s first vice president, Mike Pence, said he was not convinced that Trump would look for a third term. But Short also said that he rejected other Trump ideas who found their way, “I’ve said before that he couldn’t” – and he showed the ability to do these things, “Short said. Short said Republicans would not stand against him, while his approval judgments among the Republican voters remain high. “If the president has policies that have economic consequences that soften his approval numbers, speak more Republicans, but not until then,” Short said. One Trump -alignment said the comments of the president should not be taken seriously. Asked for a similar example of a far-fetched Trump idea that went nowhere, the person was quick with an answer: Take Greenland over. But the idea of ​​acquiring the autonomous Danish area went to a US foreign policy -imperative in the second term of an unlikely Trump in the first term of the president. The talk about a third term has permeated the popular culture. In an episode of the technical financing culture “All in” podcast, Jason Calacanis has a challenging hypothetical to a guest for a guest: “Brass Tacks,” he said, “Trump is working on his third term against Gavin Newsom -for who do you vote?” Last month, Steve Bannon, Trump’s first -term main strategist, told Newsnation that we were planning a plan for another term. Since Trump speaks the latest round of the third term on Sunday, reporters have asked him to clear his remarks. “I don’t want to talk about a third term now,” Trump said on Sunday night, hours after the first interview was published. Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday: ‘I’ve never looked in it. They say you can do this, but I don’t know about it. ‘ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday: “It’s not really something we think of.” The mixed messages of Trump and his team led to speculation online and at Washington -Cocktail parties. One theory: That Trump could run on a ticket as the Vice President with JD Vance (or anyone else) at the top. That person would then step aside and Trump would become president again. This theory still crosses Trump with the 12th amendment of the Constitution, which says that no person who is constitutionally not suitable for the office of president is eligible to be vice president. Looking at the full Beeld President Trump is constitutionally prohibited from being elected to a third term. Photo: AFP Rep. Andy Ogles (R., Tenn.) Has enacted legislation to change the 22nd amendment, so that a president can serve three terms if one of them is not exceeding, which Trump will offer four years. But the amendment of the Constitution is not so easy. To be adopted, its resolution will have to obtain a majority of two-thirds in the home and the Senate and be approved by three-fourths of the US states. Trump regularly haunted a third term in the run -up to the 2020 election. In an interview in June 2019 with NBC News, he excluded the third term concept. “There won’t be a third term,” Trump said. The following year, in June 2020, Trump was questioned by his son, Donald Trump, Jr., for a segment broadcast on a Trump YouTube Channel campaign. “If you don’t run for a third term,” Donald Jr. Say when he started asking a question. “He does a good interview,” Trump replies, praising his son. On the campaign in 2024, Trump also raised the issue from time to time, with a line over the potential for a third and even a fourth term. Democrats seized Trump’s savings and other actions and made the preservation of democracy an important theme of the 2024 presidential campaign. It didn’t work for them. “If we respond to 2016 in the same way, you will have the same results we have had since 2016,” the former rep. Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan said. “He is confusing the economy and he has control over every leverage of the government. Why would you like to talk about something other than that? ‘ Write to Annie Lustekey on [email protected] and Josh Dawsey at [email protected], catch all the politics news and updates on live coin. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates and live business news. More topics #donald Trump #Genitstate #us President Mint Specials