Article of impeachment against former president Trump delivered to Senate, Feb. 2, 2021.
Virginia's Sen. Tim Kaine has been at the forefront of the 14th Amendment push
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Thursday did not rule out bringing legislation to bar former President Donald Trump from office if he is not convicted at the ongoing Senate impeachment trial.
Democratic senators have discussed in recent weeks that if they cannot secure the 67 votes needed to convict Trump -- and bar him from holding office in a subsequent simple-majority vote -- that they might invoke the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to do the same.
Schumer, D-N.Y., was asked about the possibility in a press conference ahead of the impeachment trial proceedings Thursday. "We're first going to finish the impeachment trial and then Democrats will get together and discuss where we go next," Schumer replied.
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WNU Editor: This is how nations like Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and others handle political leaders that they do not want to run for office. They pass a bill banning them for life.
But no one should be surprised that the Democrats now want to dictate to the opposition party on who should be their next Presidential candidate in 2024. And they will have bipartisan support.
The Democrats and many establishment Republicans do not want former President Trump to run for office again. They know too well that if the economy does not improve and the social unrest continues, coupled with the pandemic that some health experts are now predicting may be with us for years, there is then a very real possibility that President Trump may run again. With a base of 75 million people who voted for him 2020, they know too well that anything will then be possible.
