Why Trump Can Still Run For President While Under Indictment Or Even Post-Conviction | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Zach Jewell.

Publisher's Note: This series of posts on this one issue - The Unprecedented FBI Raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate - can all be found here on ENC NOW.

    Former President Donald Trump handed himself over to authorities Tuesday at a Miami courthouse, pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts, but the indictment and even a potential conviction won't disqualify Trump from running for another term in the White House.

    The 37 charges against Trump stem from his handling of sensitive documents. The former president stands accused of retaining national defense information, attempting to obstruct justice, and lying to investigators. The criminal trial, however, will not stop Trump from campaigning for the 2024 White House bid, and even if he is convicted, the Constitution doesn't prohibit Trump from running for the presidency.

    The U.S. Constitution requires a person to be a natural-born citizen, at least 35 years old, and a resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years. While the Constitution specifies that certain things disqualify a person from being elected president, none of them apply to Trump's criminal case - as long as he at least avoids impeachment by the House followed by a conviction in the Senate.

    If a president is impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate of high crimes and misdemeanors, he is removed from office and barred from serving again. Trump, while impeached by the House twice, was never convicted by the Senate.

    The 14th Amendment also includes a "disqualification clause" intended to prevent former Confederate soldiers from holding office. Some on the Left argue that Trump should be barred from holding office based on the January 6 riot, which many claim was an "insurrection," but stopping Trump from running based on the 14th Amendment would have to take a long road through the courts and is unrelated to the indictment for his handling of classified documents.

    Trump could also pardon himself if he wins his second term in office, as the Constitution only stops a president from granting a pardon "in cases of impeachment."

    Last week, Trump, who holds a commanding lead in 2024 GOP primary polls, vowed to stay in the race even if he's convicted of crimes, telling POLITICO that he will "never leave."

    "Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016," the former president said. "That was a rough one. In theory that was not doable."

poll#157

Was it a judicious ploy for Joe Biden's FBI to execute the unprecedented raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate?

  Yes; the Cheneys despise this former Republican president, and for good reason ... so they say.

  No; never has a former president been treated with this level of vindictive abuse by those temporarily in power.

  Who cares? It's Trump.

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poll#180

Now that the public is allowed to know the truth regarding the Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal, after more that 2 1/2 years of deception by the corrupt Corporate Media Kabal, propropagandidats all, and the discredited Deep State, we have NOW learned that the infamous laptop is far less about the Biden Boy's fetish for pornography, narcotics and Russian whores, and far more about Hunter's pivotal role in the Biden Crime Syndicate's selling of deep access to our foreign adversaries, and to what extent it has compromised our national security: What is your opinion about this possible coordinated Treason?

  It is imperative that we know the truth of what may be the greatest scandal in our Republic's history, and all aforementioned parties prosecuted for their crimes against the People.

  Currently, our Two Tiered Justice System is constructed to protect all Democratic Socialists, their corrupt "Journalist" spokes-sheople, and their Deep State enablers ... so why bother.

  It is Donald Trump's fault.

  How can we be assured that the "Laptop" is real? Would NOT our standard journalists have investigated this issue thoroughly nearly 3 years ago if it was real?

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poll#173

In the face of a known scandal finally being revealed by the corrupt Legacy Media regarding Joe Biden, his Mishandling of Classified Documents and his long history of Influence Peddling to our Foreign Adversaries for Personal and Familial Profit: What do you believe the outcome will be in America's Leftist practice of a Two Tiered Justice System?

  Nothing will happen since the Democratic Socialist Left is corrupt to the core, and their non patriot ambitions are only the control of power.

  Justice WILL be served, but NOT without a tremendous fight by those willing to save the Republic.

  Why can't everyone else understand that the Left is special because we care so much for our own, especially the well being of the president and his family, especially Hunter.

  What difference does it make; I am a product of a failed public education system.

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