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President Trump would like to issue a clarification. “The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution,” he wrote Monday on Truth Social. What he really said, Mr. Trump insisted, was only that the 2020 election “SHOULD GO TO THE RIGHTFUL WINNER OR, AT A MINIMUM, BE REDONE.”
Is that all? In reality, there’s little distinction: The Constitution contains no provision for mulligan presidential elections, so what Mr. Trump is talking about is impossible under the parchment written by the Founders. But if he doesn’t grasp why he’s being called the constitutional Terminator, he should reread what he wrote two days earlier. The stolen 2020 election, Mr. Trump said, “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
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