Steve Bannon dropped a political bombshell in Washington, D.C. this week, claiming Donald Trump will serve a 3rd time period as president regardless of the U.S. Constitution’s clear two-term cap.

“He’s gonna get a third term,” Bannon mentioned throughout an interview with The Economist Thursday (October 23). “Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people just sort of [need to] get accommodated with that.”

The 70-year-old former White House strategist, who walked out of federal jail final October after serving 4 months for contempt of Congress, insisted there’s already a technique in movement to make it occur, regardless of the twenty second Amendment prohibiting it.

“There’s many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan,” Bannon mentioned, with out providing specifics.

Bannon didn’t simply cease at logistics. He painted Trump as “a vehicle of divine providence,” saying, “He’s very imperfect. He’s not churchy, not particularly religious, but he’s an instrument of divine will. And you could tell [because of] how he’s pulled this off.”

He added, “We need him for at least one more term, right? And he’ll get that in ’28.”

The former Breitbart government has remained loyal to the MAGA base, even after Trump dismissed him from the White House lower than a yr into his first time period.

Donald Trump Says He’s Serious About Seeking Third Term

His newest remarks echo Trump’s personal musings a couple of third time period. Trump has bought “TRUMP 2028” hats and instructed NBC News earlier this yr he was “not joking” a couple of third run.

But constitutional students aren’t shopping for it.

“There is no wiggle room [on the 22nd Amendment],” William Baude, director of the Constitutional Law Institute on the University of Chicago, instructed NPR. “That’s a clear statement of the Constitution, and I don’t think any serious person is going to interpret it otherwise.”

The twenty second Amendment, ratified in 1951, clearly states that no particular person might be “elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

Still, Trump loyalists have floated theoretical loopholes, together with a constitutional modification or a scheme involving a vice chairman stepping down to permit Trump’s succession. Legal specialists say neither situation is prone to cross muster.

Bannon, nevertheless, stays assured. “We had longer odds in ’16 and longer odds in ’24 than we’ve got in ’28,” he mentioned. “We have to finish what we started.”

Trump’s hints a couple of third time period date again to a minimum of March 2024, when he first talked about the concept publicly.

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