Steve Bannon is adamant ‘there’s a plan’ for third Trump term — despite the 22nd Amendment
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon openly shared that there are plans to help Donald Trump circumvent the 22nd Amendment and secure a third presidential term.
In an interview with The Economist, Bannon told the magazine’s editors, “He’s gonna get a third term, Trump ’28, Trump is gonna be president ’28 so people just ought to get accommodated with that.”
When asked by editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes about the 22nd Amendment, Bannon replied, “There’s many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ’28.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
Bannon continued, arguing that Trump had “longer odds in ’16 and longer odds in ’24″ than he does looking ahead at the 2028 election, adding that “the country needs him to be President of the United States. We have to finish what we started.”
He went on to call Trump an “instrument of divine will” despite not being “churchy” or “particularly religious,” explaining that “you can tell this from how he’s pulled this off.”
“We need him for at least one more term, and he’ll get that in ’28.” [Continue reading…]