Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Anyone who says that obviously the 22nd Amendment will deter Trump from trying for a third term has been living on a different planet than the one I’ve been living on.
— Ian Bassin, who served as an associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama and is now the executive director of Protect Democracy, a nonprofit advocacy group, in comments given to Politico, on how President Donald Trump could try to serve a third term in the White House, despite the Constitutional edict against doing so that’s provided in the 22nd Amendment. “The court’s gonna tell the Republican Party that they can’t run their candidate? I don’t think so,” Bassin said.
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