Jim Acosta Lays Out Step-By-Step How Trump Can Get Third Term: ‘I Hate To Make It Sound So Realistic’

Jim Acosta laid out a precise and plausible step-by-step scenario by which President Donald Trump could secure a third term despite the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — and apologized for making it sound “so realistic.”

Trump has been floating the idea of blowing off term limits for years, and one Republican has already introduced an amendment to allow it. He did it again in an interview with NBC News anchor Kristen Welker over the weekend, and ranted to reporters on Air Force One that he’d actually be getting a fourth term because he really won in 2020.

On Monday’s edition of his Substack video podcast The Jim Acosta Show, Acosta and former Congressman Adam Kinzinger talked about Trump’s latest remarks, and Kinzinger theorized Trump was trying to avoid being seen as a lame duck.

But Acosta pitched a series of events plausible enough that he told Kinzinger “I hate to make it sound so realistic”:

ADAM KINZINGER: I think I’m so mixed on this, because first off, if I’m just speaking logically, I think all he’s doing is he’s trying to maintain his relevancy, right?

Because the second you get elected, and I had to deal with this when I decided I wasn’t going to run again, the second, you announce you’re not running again, you’re basically like half as effective, right.

I was lucky in that I was on the committee, and so I continue to do things, but so I think that’s part of it. And so I’m not too worried about it.

But I will caveat that and say I have the right to reserve being wrong in this case, because what we’ve seen is his ability, his care for the Constitution, he doesn’t care about the Constitution.

And what’s really going to matter is how does the Supreme Court rule on things like birthright citizenship, these due process issues, and ultimately I think the Supreme on big constitutional issues like this will hold true.

But yeah if they don’t then i get worried about it and and you know there may be there may be something. Look he’s got all the smartest people at Heritage Foundation trying to figure out a way around this so let’s just leave it at that i guess

JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, I mean, apparently Kristen asked about a possible scenario in which JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. That sounds like right out of the sick mind of Steve Bannon.

That’s that sounds like a Steve Bannon thing. I mean I’m just going to say it right now. I’m going to predict that that’s where that came from.

But, and apparently Trump says, but there are others too. I don’t know what that is.

But this is the scenario that’s been running through my mind, Adam. And it goes like this.

He just announces that he’s to do it even if the Constitution says you can’t do it. He starts getting on ballots in various primary states, caucus states, and of course these state party chairmen and chairwomen and so on are not going to stand up to him.

And we’ll do these stories all over again about how the Republican party is the party of Trump and they won’t deal with any of this shit.

And then he’s just going to start winning primaries and he’s going to say to the Supreme Court. “Well, this is what the people want. This is democracy,” and he’s gonna force yet another constitutional crisis, and we’ll talk about that.

I mean, I hate to make it sound so realistic, but that to me is something that could happen.

Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.