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Senate report gives new details of Trump efforts to use Justice Dept. to overturn electionThe interim report by the Senate Judiciary Committee was issued Thursday. While Republicans on the panel offered their counter-findings, arguing that Trump did not subvert the justice system to remain in power, the majority report by the Democrats offers the most detailed account to date of the struggle inside the administrations final, desperate days.
On Jan. 3, then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue, and a few other administration officials met in the Oval Office for what all expected to be a final confrontation on Trumps plan to replace Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a little-known Justice Department official who had indicated he would publicly pursue Trumps false claims of mass voter fraud.
According to testimony Rosen gave to the committee, Trump opened the meeting by saying, One thing we know is you, Rosen, arent going to do anything to overturn the election.
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MineralMan
(146,281 posts)The Constitution has the requirements to be President. It sets the rules.
Had Trump been convicted in either of his two impeachments, the Senate could have barred him from holding public office, but those convictions didn't happen. So, there is nobody who can do what this OP suggests. Nobody.
spanone
(135,802 posts)Once a president leaves office there are no consequences?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)There probably are (or eventually could be) laws put in place by states, counties, cities, etc ... barring anyone convicted of a crime that intersects with something he's convicted of (i.e. if he's convicted of a felony, there could be laws barring any felon running for office type of deal) in their jurisdiction.
But as far as any sort of country-wide ban, at all levels, of running for office, of a single person? There's no such thing. Nobody has that authority in the USA.
malaise
(268,844 posts)That is all
Marthe48
(16,926 posts)after his trial.
His crime was so trivial compared to twice-impeached traitor's.