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Trump Shares Posts Pitching Himself as Speaker and Calling Kevin McCarthy a Traitor
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They put a far right super majority in the supreme court, are trying to put their candidate in Congress as speaker and then re-elect him to the executive branch.
We all know they're fucking Nazis, but, just saying, this sure seems like some 1930's Germany shit, right now. Like it's obvious and all, but still needs to be said out loud.
Would be a lot cooler if we were not trying to replicate that shit.
If elected speaker, he would be third in line to the presidency. They were already ready to kill Trump's own VP on his behalf.
On the bright side, he can't claim executive immunity or pardon himself if he was selected to be Speaker, since the legislative branch does not confer the same level of such protections, and he wouldn't be able to campaign as much, since he would have to do actual work.
On top of that, he would have a much smaller megaphone, much less power, and he would be a live-in distraction for the true believers in Congress.
Basically, he'd have to successfully assassinate two members of the executive branch who are around and guarded by numerous people at all times.
Bold of you to assume he wouldn't just golf all the time anyway. Being president obviously posed little hindrance.
I like the cut of your jib, but I don't think Speaker offers the same...erm..."flexibility" as the presidency.
Or just manage to impeach them successfully. Which is unlikely, but possible.
yeah.. but A LOT of those guys are now in prison too.
Not even close to enough to make a difference if this happens. For every convicted J6 insurrectionist, there's 100 willing to act that just didn't make it down to Washington that day.
Willing to bet that number is a lot higher than 100, sadly.
He won't become speaker he got to many legal problems and it takes away from him campaigning so we safe for now.
That's why it'd be so funny if he got huckleberry finn'd into the job
Couldn't he turn it down even if he gets the votes? Unless he knows something we don't know and MTG and pals have a plan to get him installed as president this way.
Installing the Speaker as President just requires removing Pres and VP. It's 3rd in line.
Like he did with the presidency?
He's using his legal problems as part of his campaigning tactic.
Becoming speaker makes him 3rd in line for the presidency and that sweet, sweet executive immunity. 4 more years before he could be prosecuted, and let's be fair it's about even odds he'd live that long.