“Experts say the scheme could work, in theory.”
In March, Left-leaning “fact-checking” site, PolitiFact.com, critiqued a popular Facebook post that laid out a “hopeful scenario” by which Donald Trump could become president again before the 2024 U.S. election.
The Facebook post read,
“Trump can run for Congress in 2022, in FL. If he wins the seat and Republicans take over the House of Representatives, he could become the Speaker of the House. Then, his first act could be impeaching Joe (Biden) and Kamala (Harris). If it works, he finishes out the remainder of Biden’s term and can still run for President in 2024. Wouldn’t that be a hoot!”
Here’s the image from the post:
PolitiFact—which has a “Lean Left bias,” according to AllSides, because “selecting what gets fact-checked and how it will be checked is subjective in nature”—called on a Florida election lawyer, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a law professor at Michigan State University to determine whether the post’s claims were valid or not.
PolitiFact determined that while the scenario is far-fetched, it nevertheless “could work.”
“Experts say the scheme could work, in theory,” reported PolitiFact writer Louis Jacobson. “But the scenario playing out in the real world would run into some all-but-insurmountable practical obstacles, especially when it runs into the requirement that two-thirds of the Senate vote to remove President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris,” Jacobson added.
The fact-checking site concluded that there are indeed “no significant legal or constitutional barriers” to Trump becoming president again in 2023, then again still in 2024.
PolitiFact was recently blasted for removing a fact check from its database in which it had referred to the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis as a “debunked conspiracy theory.” Even Dr. Anthony Fauci himself has now admitted that COVID may have leaked from a laboratory—earlier claiming a natural origin was “highly likely”—amid a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request which made his emails public.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
