Former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon has publicly backed President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could seek a third term, asserting in an interview with The Economist that “there is a plan” to get around the Constitution’s two-term limit. Bannon said, without providing details, that he was part of a group working on the idea and described Trump as “an instrument of divine will”, the New York Times reported.

“Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to get accommodated with that,” Bannon said, adding that details of the plan would be revealed “at the appropriate time.”

The constitutional barrier

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, clearly states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice.” It leaves no legal room for a

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