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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Milman

Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’

a man in a suit looking to the side, an American flag behind him
Donald Trump at a meeting with US ambassadors at the White House in Washington DC on 25 March. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Donald Trump’s suggestion that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term as US president has been met with scorn – but also warnings that he could seriously attempt it, despite being explicitly barred from doing so by the US constitution.

“The biggest mistake of the last eight years is that we somehow failed to give credibility to Donald Trump’s whims and impulses, but we know it’s true,” David Jolly, a former Republican member of Congress, told MSNBC.

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