Donald Trump Promises to Defend Articles of Constitution That Don’t Actually Exist

According to members of Congress who attended a D.C. meeting with Donald Trump Thursday, the Republican presidential candidate vowed to protect parts of the Constitution that do not actually exist.

“I wasn’t particularly impressed,” said South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford told The Washington Post after the meeting. “It was the normal stream of consciousness that’s long on hyperbole and short on facts.”

“At one point, somebody asked about Article I powers: What will you do to protect them? I think his response was, ‘I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII,’ going down the list. There is no Article XII,” Sanford said.

There are in fact only seven articles of the Constitution. Article I, the one asked about by Sanford’s colleague, lays out to powers of Congress. One of the articles Trump vowed to protect is defunct: Article VII laid out how the Constitution would be ratified by the thirteen original states.

Another Republican congressman was less worried. “When he made the comment about the Constitution, ‘I love this article and that article,’ I assumed he was talking about the amendments, because he was off on the numbers,” Morgan Griffith said.

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