This is a man who openly says he wants to fuck his daughter, and the #1 hobby he shares with his daughter is sex, and the cult's response was he's a stand up, moral Christian man, and its perfectly natural for a father to want to fuck his daughter, and if we're all being honest, what father hasn't fucked his daughter? #TrumpDerangement!
Sort of.
If he is convicted I don't think he can take office. One of the consequences of being found guilty in the Jan 6th case is he's forbidden from holding public office again.
I'm pretty sure that there is no constitutional bar on someone convicted of a felony, or even still currently serving time for that felony, also being president. There is an obvious logic that someone with a criminal felony could be allowed become president, because someone could be convicted in a way later viewed as unjust (e.g. think Nelson Mandela). The president must be barred from holding public office by Congress (i.e. impeachment), not a standard court.
Isn't there a thing in the Constitution that bars people from holding office if they're convicted of espionage or insurrection?
There're harsh restrictions on voting for convicted felons in the majority of states, funny given that we'd even have to question the particulars of a felon campaigning to run the whole country. But in the completely fucked up country and potential Trump has exposed us all to, I'd not be surprised if the oval office were moved to cell block G.
Nope. Okay, to clarify, not as far as I am aware given I am no expert in the Constitution. Of course, one might also point out that the first president of the USA very famously led an insurrection against the previous ruler, so it might have been a bit awkward to specifically prohibit.
I swear I had heard from commentators there was a way, and I think I found it:
They're still sucking Reagan's dick to this day, after every social, political, and economic performance indicator that ever has been or ever will be, all prove beyond even the pretense of reasonable doubt that to say he was a dogshit president is an insult to dogshit. Of eight years in office, I can think of one and only one Reagan policy that was an unqualified success, government cheese, and even that's tainted with the stink of his food stamp cuts. Other than that, the only thing I can say about him that isn't completely negative, is at least he wasn't as bad as Millard FIllmore, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, or Andrew Johnson.
Ah, but what if a sizeable portion of your democracy doesn't want a democracy? Awkward position to be in.
He has not, however, thus far been charged with either treason or insurrection, so unless he is that is a moot point.
Given the very nature of treason and insurrection, I don't think having held an office before, during, or after such crimes are committed should make much of a difference. But like Ag3ma said, those crimes haven't specifically been leveled at Trump, and I'm sure it's shrewd and convenient interpretations of the law (for better or worse) that such is the case.
"Alleged" is probably the key point.
No actual separation between judicial, legislative and executive powers for starters. Congress shits its pants in front of the führer, who selects the Supreme Court judges.
Trump is the classic problem of a demagogue. He has the fervent support of a huge number of people, and mobilises "the base". To tackle Trump is therefore to risk aggravating those people and losing one's job, whether through deselection or disenchanting the faithful come election time - as numerous Republicans have experienced.
They've had plenty of opportunity to kick him, on Jan 6, when the phone call of him asking the governor to make up fake vote, when he was found liable of sexual assault by a court and so on. What's one more going to do? Trump wasn't a sudden change, he was a continuation of a shift in the GOP that started in the 2000's.
