20 h. ago Trump attorney told associate he had ‘studied the law’ and and president could potentially run for third term

The president insisted over the weekend that he was ‘not joking’ about running again in 2028

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36 h. ago Republicans win special elections for two key House seats in Florida

Randy Fine beats Josh Weil in Mike Waltz’s former district, and Jimmy Patronis wins seat vacated by Matt GaetzRepublicans on Tuesday won special elections for two US House of Representatives seats in Florida vacated by Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, dashing Democratic hopes for an upset victory in the first federal special elections held since the president began his second term.But Democratic candidates Josh Weil and Gay Valimont are on track to lose the solidly red districts by much smaller margins than the more than 30 points that Democrats lost them by in November. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Mike Johnson throws cold water on Trump’s musings about a third term for president

Trump would need to amend the Constitution to run again in 2028

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48 h. ago Trump welcomes idea of running for a notional third term against Obama: ‘I’d love that’

In a hypothetical, and nearly impossible, third-term matchup the president said he’d ‘love’ to run against Obama

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3 d. ago Donald Trump discusses serving a 'FOURTH term' as he is asked about whether he will stay on beyond his second stint as president

Donald Trump, 78, has claimed that many Americans want him to serve a 'sort of a fourth term'. The remark follows his comment that he was 'not joking' about serving another term.

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3 d. ago Trump and his team keep referencing a third term in 2028. But could he actually run again?

The 22nd amendment bars presidents from a third term in office. Is it enough to stop Trump?

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3 d. ago Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’

US president receives bipartisan criticism after saying there are ‘methods’ he could defy constitution to seek third termUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s suggestion that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term as US president has been met with scorn – but also warnings that he could seriously attempt it, despite being explicitly barred from doing so by the US constitution.“The biggest mistake of the last eight years is that we somehow failed to give credibility to Donald Trump’s whims and impulses, but we know it’s true,” David Jolly, a former Republican member of Congress, told MSNBC. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Could Donald Trump run for a third term? President says he's 'not joking' about remaining in office

The US president told NBC news there were ways to overturn the constitution

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3 d. ago Donald Trump says he is ‘not joking’ over possible third term – US politics live

President tells NBC ‘there are methods’ in securing a third term despite constitutional barriersGood morning, and welcome to our US politics blog amid news that Donald Trump is “not joking” about a possible third term.The comments on Sunday are the clearest indication yet he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago. And he told host Kristen Welker: “I am not joking.” He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington 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.” Trump lost that election to Joe Biden. Still, Trump added: “I don’t want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, we’ve got a long time to go.”Donald ...

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3 d. ago Donald Trump says 'I’m not joking' about trying to serve third term in White House

‘There are methods which you could do it,’ Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago

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3 d. ago Trump claims ‘there are methods’ for him to seek third term in White House: Live updates

President makes most extensive comments yet on desire for third term during NBC interview

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3 d. ago Trump live updates: President claims ‘there are methods’ for him to seek third term in White House

President makes most extensive comments yet on desire for third term during NBC interview

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3 d. ago Trump reveals he's serious about finding a way to serve a third term

President Donald Trump has seriously floated the possibility of him running for a third term, despite the US Constitution stipulating that presidents are limited to two four-year terms.

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3 d. ago Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as presidentDonald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms.In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump says he’s ‘not joking’ about serving third term as president – and suggests one way he thinks he could do it

President cagey about how he would try and cling to power when asked – but teases one possibility

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3 d. ago Trump news today: President claims ‘there are methods’ for him to seek third term in White House

President makes most extensive comments yet on desire for third term during NBC interview

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6 d. ago Donald Trump had PTSD from assassination attempt when he picked JD Vance as vice president, says former aide Anthony Scaramucci

At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One – known to friends and detractors as ‘The Mooch’ – is a silver-tongued businessman with quiffed hair and an Italian-American twanged voice, whose 11 day stint as Donald Trump’s communications director in 2017 in his first term as President makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other is an Oxford educated historian with a roster of BBC documentaries under his belt and an RP accent.

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6 d. ago Donald Trump had PTSD when he picked JD Vance as vice president, says former colleague Anthony Scaramucci

At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One – known to friends and detractors as ‘The Mooch’ – is a silver-tongued businessman with quiffed hair and an Italian-American twanged voice, whose 11 day stint as Donald Trump’s communications director in 2017 in his first term as President makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other is an Oxford educated historian with a roster of BBC documentaries under his belt and an RP accent.

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6 d. ago Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US | Simon Jenkins

The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue“Move fast and break things” was Mark Zuckerberg’s motto in launching Facebook 20 years ago. It seemed the antithesis of management-school custom and practice. But it worked, to be imitated after a fashion by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other digital tycoons with similar success. Donald Trump is now seeing if it works in government.The smart money in Washington was that after the fiasco of Trump’s first term, his second would see a more emollient president, one careful of his reputation. He would reach out, consult, become a peacemaker, in his desperation to become a Nobel president like Barack Obama.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Ukraine is weak without unity,’ says opposition leader Petro Poroshenko

Former president hits out at sanctions against him but admits his criticism of Zelenskyy comes at a delicate timeIn the corner of Petro Poroshenko’s Kyiv office, a large poster shows him shaking hands with Donald Trump, back in the US president’s first term when Poroshenko was his Ukrainian counterpart.Those were happier times for Kyiv when it came to Trump: on the wall behind Poroshenko’s desk hangs a certificate, signed by Trump’s then secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, in 2018, vowing that the US will not recognise the annexation of Crimea. Continue reading...

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