They Know He Can't... Watch This!

Ajouté : 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Are you freaking kidding me?

[00:00:04]I'm going to play you a short clip of a Senate confirmation hearing.

[00:00:10]Donald Trump had nominated several people to be federal judges and Senator, Democratic Senator Chris Coons is asking them a very basic question about the 22nd amendment which bars presidents from being elected more than twice.

[00:00:34]And it is absolutely mindboggling, although not at all surprising given where we are, that none of them could answer the simple question. They refused is more accurately the way to say it. They refused to answer the simple question of whether or not Donald Trump can run for a third term. And before I play the clip, we all know the game that's being played here. They all know the answer.

[00:01:05]They know Donald Trump is not constitutionally eligible to run for another term. But they also know that they have to pretend either that he can or as you'll see here in this clip, pretend that they don't really know. They haven't really reviewed that issue because if they state the obvious fact that everyone understands that Trump is un ineligible, constitutionally ineligible, prohibited by the Constitution for running for another term. If they say that, they know that they'll that their nomination is likely to be withdrawn and they'll they'll never get to the court. So, they have to play this stupid game. So, we all understand that. But nonetheless, it is infuriating.

[00:01:54]So, watch this.

[00:01:56]>> Uh, Mr. Mark, if I might, um, just tell me about the 22nd Amendment. What does it provide?

[00:02:04]>> The 22nd Amendment, Senator, my career has mostly been in criminal prosecution.

[00:02:10]I haven't had an opportunity to to use that one specifically.

[00:02:13]>> Anyone able to help on the 22nd amendment to the United States Constitution?

[00:02:22]Senator, I believe it is the amendment that deals with a two-term limitation on correct service.

[00:02:27]>> It states no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Um, Mr. Mark, is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028?

[00:02:39]Senator, with a without considering all the facts and and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this to me strikes as more of a hypothetical of something that could be >> It's not a hypothetical. Has President Trump been elected president twice?

[00:02:53]>> President Trump has been certified the president of the United States two times.

[00:02:56]>> Is he eligible to run for a third term under our constitution? Um, I would have to to review the the >> All I need to tell you is the language of the constitutional amendment that makes it clear that no, he is not eligible to run for a third term.

[00:03:09]Anybody else brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President Trump from seeking a third term?

[00:03:18]Anybody willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language in the 22nd Amendment?

[00:03:24]Nobody.

[00:03:25]All right, let's move on. So, let's talk about what this guy said in his refusal to answer this very basic question.

[00:03:33]First, he was asked by Senator Coons, "Is President Trump eligible to run again in 2028?"

[00:03:42]And then he goes on, this judicial nominee goes on rambling saying, "Well, without considering all the facts and looking at everything, blah blah blah blah."

[00:03:56]This is just a hypothetical.

[00:03:59]No, it's a very simple question and you don't need to consider any other facts other than what you already know. The fact is Donald Trump was elected twice.

[00:04:11]The plain wording of the 22nd amendment is very simple.

[00:04:16]He cannot run again. And yet you have to pretend well without considering everything. Well, I'm a judge, you know, and I can't prejudge a case and without considering all the facts and circumstance. So, you think there might be a circumstance where someone was elected twice to be president, where somehow, I guess maybe written in invisible ink somewhere in the 22nd amendment, he might be allowed to run for a third term. Oh my god.

[00:04:51]Then he was asked, "Has President Trump been elected twice?" And then this scumbag tries to play this game. Well, President Trump, he won't accept the word elected. Well, Trump has been certified as president twice. So, is that the game that they would play with the 22nd amendment? Well, the 22nd amendment says you can't be elected more than twice. What is the definition of elected? Was Trump really elected? We know he was certified, but was he elected? Let us ponder this. You freaking kidding me?

[00:05:28]Then finally, he was asked again, "Is he eligible to run for a third term?" To which this guy replied, "Well, I would have to review the actual wording of it.

[00:05:46]I'm a I I spent my career as a criminal prosecutor, don't you know? So, I've I've never really had to deal with the 22nd Amendment." But you are aware of it, are you not? I mean, shouldn't you as a bare minimum? I mean, you've been you're you're not a prosecutor on a case here. You're not before a, you know, a a criminal court trying a criminal defendant. You have been nominated to be a federal judge to potentially serve for life. Should you maybe, I don't know, review the Constitution?

[00:06:26]Now, I can absolutely accept that in this man's professional career, he never had occasion to look at the 22nd amendment. Of course, he didn't.

[00:06:36]Why would he? He's a criminal prosecutor. He would not ever have dealt with a case where the 22nd amendment has come into play.

[00:06:46]and he may he may not really know much about the Constitution at all other than those parts of the Constitution that might come up in a criminal case like I don't know the Fourth Amendment that that's a big one as a as a criminal prosecutor I could tell you that that is the source of a lot of of criminal uh litigation is the Fourth Amendment search and seizure all that kind of stuff.

[00:07:15]Uh so yes, the 22nd amendment would never come up. And other than those air those parts of the constitution that would come up in the course of a a criminal practitioner's day-to-day work, um yes, you're not going to be familiar with much of the Constitution if you don't, you know, take an independent interest in the Constitution.

[00:07:37]And you pro, you know, most lawyers probably hadn't looked at the Constitution since first year in law school when you have to take uh, you know, con law. And then as you're cramming for the for the bar exam, that that's really for most lawyers, those are the only times they deal much with constitutional law in their first year as a law student and then cramming for the bar exam and then that's it. Unless certain parts of the Constitution, as I say, come up in their their daily practice. So, I get that. However, as I said, you're not in a courtroom prosecuting a drunk driver.

[00:08:15]You are appearing before the United States Senate in a confirmation hearing.

[00:08:21]You have been nominated by the president of the United States to potentially serve for life as a federal judge.

[00:08:30]I got news for you. whatever the [ __ ] your name is. The Constitution is going to come up a lot and the American people acting through their representatives in the Senate have a right to know if you know a damn thing about the Constitution and what your thoughts on it are.

[00:08:53]And to me, you know, in this clip, and I didn't watch this whole hearing or anything, but at the end of this clip, Senator Coons just kind of moves on.

[00:09:04]I wish he had taken that opportunity to say the fact that none of you are willing to say what is very clearly true, that Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term. That is disqualifying.

[00:09:22]that none of you deserve to be confirmed as judges based on your refusal to answer that simple question. I wish he had done that. It wouldn't make any difference, but you know, I would have liked to have seen that. And let me tell you something.

[00:09:39]You know, Democrats should filibuster.

[00:09:42]If if if you can't if you can't say that Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term, you have no business being on the federal bench. And obviously they all know the answer to that. They all know the truth. But again, they're not willing to say it.

[00:09:56]And that fact because they're scared to death of saying something that the president doesn't want to hear, that alone should be disqualifying. So either side of that should be disqualifying.

[00:10:11]Your refusal to answer because you don't know, you're not familiar enough with the Constitution. Okay, that's disqualifying. or you refuse to answer because you're scared to death of the president. That should be disqualifying.

[00:10:27]And let me tell you something. If Democrats, and it's a big if, take control of the United States Senate, although it is looking, if you look at the polls, it is looking certainly much more optimistic for the uh Democrats in terms of taking back the Senate than it was a few months ago. But, you know, it's it's um it's still going to be tough. But if they do, if they are successful in flipping the Senate, then these judicial nominees uh should just be shut down. Don't approve another one of Trump's nominees. Period.

[00:11:08]Because, you know, he's not going to nominate anyone who's not an absolute lackey. He's not going to make that mistake again if he can possibly avoid it.

[00:11:19]You know, you're going to get alien cannon types. You're going to get the kinds of people that you saw in this clip.

[00:11:29]And certainly, if you ever ask a simple question like this and they either don't know or refuse to answer for whatever reason, you should say right then and there, "Okay, y'all are disqualified. I I'm a no. You you're you're not getting confirmed."

[00:11:45]And in the meantime, they should be doing everything they can to delay uh to deny these people confirmation.

[00:11:54]And again, there's only so much you could do because they're in the minority. But, you know, there's a lot more ability in the Senate, you know, to throw sand in the gears and to slow the process down and and and and to do other things. They should be doing all those things because these people can potentially serve for life, which is one of the many, many things in my opinion we should change about the Constitution. It's it's ridiculous. I mean, I don't know how old they only showed this one nominee. He's not that old. I don't know how old he is, but he could potentially be up there for 30, 40 years. That's ridiculous.

[00:12:36]Anyway, all right. That's it. Enough of the rant. Thanks for watching.