The US attorney general Pam Bondi said if President Donald Trump can find a way, he would be good for a third term in office.
Trump who is only three months into his second term has said he is open to seeking office for the third time. But he has to find a way around the Constitution of the United States that stipulates two terms in office.
“I wish we could have him for 20 years as our president,” Pam Bondi told Fox News Sunday, “but I think he’s going to be finished, probably, after this term.”
The US Constitution was amended in 1947 to set a two-year limit on the presidency, not long after Franklin Roosevelt died near the start of his fourth term in the White House.
But constitutional amendments require approval by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, as well as ratification by three-quarters of the 50 states, which political analysts say is extremely unlikely.
“That’s really the only way to do it,” Bondi said. “It’d be a heavy lift.”
Trump’s early talk of seeking a third term struck many as fanciful, but on March 31 the 78-year-old president told NBC News that he was “not joking” about the possibility.
He said there were “methods” that would allow it to happen.
The remarks by Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, about the difficulty of a legal third term appear to align with the views of most constitutional scholars.
But as a confirmed Trump loyalist holding the government’s top law-enforcement office, her comments take on greater significance.
