Trump: America’s First Convicted Felon President?

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Hey, Farron, I really do enjoy your insight and expertise. We keep hearing that Trump can still be president, uh, in jail as a felon. That that in itself amazes me. But my question is, most convicted of a felony lose the right to vote. So how's it possible if convicted as a felon, he can still become president in jail? Where's the justice in that? Well, I mean, technically, if he's a felon, depending on, you know, it'd be federal charges. So I don't know if he'd be allowed to vote. Obviously, if he's literally in jail, he is not allowed to vote. But he could still run. He just wouldn't be able to vote for himself. So that's the only thing that really affects. But you're right that that does suddenly present a very weird conundrum because we have a felon who's legally not even allowed to vote.

They can't even participate in democracy, but we're gonna let them control our country. Like, how can we square that as a country? Like, no, we can't trust this person to vote because they broke the law. Okay? But now you're trusting him to actually be the top law guy by controlling the country. None of it makes any sense. And I think, again, it all goes back to the founding fathers, right? I mean, they put the parameters in place on who could be the president of the United States. And I, I, I don't think they ever thought for a second, like, should, should we maybe add something saying that if you're in jail, you can't be president? And I'm sure they probably laughed and thought, really? Like, who's gonna vote for a guy in jail? Come on, let's be serious here. We're founding a country not running a comedy club.

Guys. Nobody's ever gonna vote for a felon. Well, guess what? Founding fathers we're dumber than y'all thought, right? I mean, we, we really have to be. They would be ashamed of what they created because it created what we're living in today. Um, but yeah, so it would be a very weird situation. But Trump can be president from behind bars. And of course, if he's behind bars for federal charges, then once he becomes president, his first act of business, I'm going to assume would be to give himself a full pardon, at which point he's no longer behind bars because he got the pardon, he'd get his right to vote back. So it would only be a minor setback, constitutionally speaking. So it's weird, but it is 100% a very real possibility that we may have to live with in the near future.

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