Donald Trump is NOT eligible to run for President. Period.

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17. Yes. Both Takket and the OP address this point.

Takket:

It also appears that the whole "president is not an officer" bullshit was also called out specifically in the original debate. So toss that in the trash too.

OP:

It's also worth noting that there was just a single reference in the Senate debate to the fact that the president and vice president were not explicitly mentioned in Howard's draft as "officer(s) of the United States," the way members of Congress and state officials had been itemized in the text. Would the disqualification clause of the amendment not cover the top posts in the executive branch?

"Why did you omit to exclude them?" asked Maryland Democratic Sen. Reverdy Johnson.

Maine's Lot Morrill jumped in to clarify.

"Let me call the Senator's attention to the words 'or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,'" Morrill said, ending the discussion on that point.