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The unsealed search warrant executed at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property on Aug. 8 revealed that the former president is under criminal investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws related to national security.
But that investigation which concerns a trove of top-secret documents confiscated from the former president's Palm Beach, Fla., home is ongoing. Trump has not been charged with any crimes and has denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the records were declassified.
Still, close Trump ally and Fox News host Sean Hannity wants listeners of his radio show to know that even if the former president is charged and eventually convicted of a crime, it won't be a dealbreaker when it comes to running for president.
"If they think that they're going to somehow make this about Donald Trump and prevent him from running from office, well they obviously have not read something called the Constitution," Hannity said Monday on Premiere Radio Network's The Sean Hannity Show. "Because the Constitution is pretty clear on what qualifies one to be able to run for president."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sean-hannity-reminds-listeners-that-felons-can-run-for-president-as-trump-is-investigated-by-doj/ar-AA10IPTW
Thereby proving the GOP is not the party of law and order.
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(10,098 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)They don't want felons to vote but they can run for President?
Baggies
(503 posts)"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
Later it was added that one person could only serve 2 terms.
Thats it!
Im not getting whats so confusing about that.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)to Britain.
So yea. The requirements are pretty clear.
Ocelot II
(115,719 posts)and a natural-born citizen. However, the notion that someone who has been convicted of violating the Espionage Act could credibly run for and receive his partys nomination for that office is appalling, but Hannity is telling the cult that this would be just fine, if it happens.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,289 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,324 posts)Or is that too, wrong?
Serious question. (but it shouldn't be)