He’s not the first convicted criminal to run for office.
05/30/2024 05:12 PM EDTFor the first time in history, a presumptive presidential nominee from one of the two major U.S. political parties is a convicted felon.prevent him from running for — and potentially serving — as president? Nope.
As a candidate for federal office, Trump is restricted only by requirements in the U.S. Constitution. Those requirements are straightforward: The president must be at least 35 years old, must be a natural-born U.S. citizen and must have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years. There’s nothing on criminal convictions.
Now, if Trump is sentenced to prison and also wins the presidency, that would pose obvious practical complications. It’s implausible he could run the country from a cell, and some legal experts say the resulting constitutional crisis would require that his sentence be suspended so that he could fulfill his duties as the nation’s chief executive.
Trump’s no Socialist, but there are some similarities between the two candidates. Perhaps most notably, both Trump and Debs used their legal issues as talking points to fire up their base.Trump has made his four indictments a focal point for his 2024 candidacy, even releasing his Georgia mugshot in a defiant tweet. At his Manhattan trial, Trump gave campaign speeches daily from the hallway outside the courtroom — delivered from a pen of metal barricades erected by court officers.
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