• hope@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    For starters, the president of the United States once said that a convicted felon winning the election would be a constitutional crisis, and then he proceeded to do that.

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      So we’re listening to Trump’s opinions on the constitution now?

      According to BBC:

      The US Constitution sets out relatively few eligibility requirements for presidential candidates: they must be at least 35, be a “natural born” US citizen and have lived in the US for at least 14 years.

      So despite what he thinks on the matter, electing a convicted felon appears to be constitutional.

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          No, what’s wrong with YOU? The felon argument is a shit one. It’s important being a felon doesn’t bar you from running so shit bags like Trump can’t just make all their opposition into felons and pretend it’s legal.