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DamageSo, for an European who hasn’t been following this: criminal conviction does not bar him from running for president?
ThirdWorldOrderThe U.S. Constitution sets out three eligibility requirements for the presidency:
The person must be a natural-born citizen of the United States
At least 35 years old
A resident of the United States for at least 14 years.
There are no restrictions regarding criminal records.
“But why isn’t there a restriction on criminal convictions for being president?”
A: before now, nobody thought we needed to explicitly write them.
We live in insane times.
It’s also a safeguard against the reigning power using bogus prosecutions against their opposition, like we see in many authoritarian states.