Donald Trump Will Run Again in 2024 if He Loses to Joe Biden, Says Steve Bannon
Crazy talk from the children's table. Just ignore it...
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Steve Bannon, the White House's former chief strategist under President Donald Trump, offered a "prediction" regarding the aftereffects of next month's election should Democratic nominee Joe Biden win. Speaking to The Australian in a report published Sunday, Bannon suggested Trump will pursue another term in office if he does not win this November.
"I'll make this prediction right now: If for any reason the election is stolen from, or in some sort of way Joe Biden is declared the winner, Trump will announce he's going to run for re-election in 2024," he told the newspaper. "You're not going to see the end of Donald Trump."
With the general election just over two weeks away, most national polls show Biden maintaining a substantial lead over his Republican rival. Bannon, who helped lead Trump's 2016 campaign prior to serving a seven-month stint as White House strategist, said he believes the current race is "closer than is being reported" in his comments to The Australian.
Trump often voices his own skepticism regarding poll results and tells supporters his campaign is on track to win in certain states where forecasting statistics do not indicate it. This week, the president claimed Biden was "losing big in Florida," despite polling numbers suggesting Biden was leading.
"Only fake polls show otherwise!" Trump said in a Tuesday tweet. During a campaign rally in Michigan on Saturday, the president made similar claims about the upcoming election's outcome in Minnesota, repeatedly telling attendees he expects to win there even as polling data showed Biden ahead of Trump by more than 10 percentage points in the state.
Bannon, whose relationship with the president was contentious following his 2017 White House departure, is now backing Trump and his 2020 reelection bid. He was charged with fraud over the summer for alleged misuse of donations collected through a private fundraising effort meant to back the president's proposed border wall between Mexico and the U.S. In comments to the New York Post this week, Bannon claimed Hunter Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee's son, attempted to recover a hard drive related to the federal inquiry into Russian election interference.
Newsweek subscription offers >President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Muskegon, Michigan, on October 17. Former White House strategist Steve Bannon said he believes Trump will seek reelection in 2024 if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the upcoming election.Rey Del Rio/Getty
Trump referenced the Post's report on Twitter Sunday morning, calling Biden a "corrupt politician." In a subsequent tweet about Bannon, the president said, "I think Steve will be just fine." The latter message was attached to a re-tweeted post from journalist Tim O'Brien, who cited Trump's 2018 remarks about Bannon's White House exit.
"When he was fired, [Bannon] not only lost his job, he lost his mind," the president said at the time.
Newsweek reached out to Trump's campaign for comments but did not receive a reply in time for publication.
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Now we know Trump's plan. This shit is hilarious...
Of course Steve Bannon is backing Trump again. Never crap on a guy who has the power to pardon you (at least for the next couple of months).
He'll be coming back from Russia to run for president in 2024...LOL too fricking funny.
Nah, he'll Zoom his campaign rallies from the Kremlin.
I didn't know paroled felons are allowed to run for president.
2024?
1. Very unlikely. Bannon, Trump and a few others may be in prison for criminal money laundering with known international crime cartels.
2. The only real question to be pondered is how convicted individuals would be able to serve terms allocated them in Federal Prisons and State Prisons simultaneously.
3. When Trump and the Trumpers chant "LOCK THEM UP" are they remotely cognitive of the utterances being exhaled?
4. Or does Trump know that...................aw never mind. He doesn't know and doesn't know that he doesn't know.
What worries me is that is one reason they have been stacking the courts.
Just look at the ruling that just came out about voting.
The SC was tied being short on a 4x4 vote. We all know this new 'justice' will rule with the conservatives.
Not to mention all the other judges that have been planted all over the country.
When they refused to fill any vacancies during the Obama administration and now are filling every vacancy they can find, yes, it is them stacking the courts in their favor.
We shall see. The conservative Justices know that if they get too far out of line, Biden will pack the Court. So it's kind of a Mexican standoff...
Does American Law (Constitution? Amendments? etc) ALLOW a previous POTUS to be elected again (not including the usual second consecutive term, of course). A one term POTUS? A two term POTUS? Is there a possibility a POTUS can be elected for multiple terms provided another POTUS serves in between them?
I bet Trump is jealous about how Putin put Medvedev as his proxy in between full terms, but then Putin took it even further and extended his term by many years.
Maybe we should all urge Trump to move to Russia and run against Putin at their next election.
An individual may serve two terms as President. They do not have to be consecutive.
This is the pertinent language of the 22nd Amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.
I'll assume a "term" is defined as 4 years. That wil enable Trump to be a candidate from his prison cell for the 2024 election.
A "term" is 4 years.