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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Getty Images).

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Getty Images).

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures equally he speaks during a "Keep America Swell" campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Getty Images).

No, Trump cannot run two more times if the Senate does not convict him

As the U.S. Senate continues the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a meme is circulating claiming that if the Senate does not convict, Trump can run for president two more times.

The grammatically challenged post reads:

"Want to blow a snowflakes mind? Remind them if Trump is impeached in the firm & not senate, he can run ii more times. The U.S. Constitution states that if a president is impeached by the Business firm simply non convicted by the Senate, that person's first term is nullified and they are eligible to run for office two more times."

The post was flagged every bit office of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more nigh our partnership with Facebook.)

Back in October, we rated a nearly identical claim Pants on Burn.

This i is also going up in flames.

"It'due south totally false. Ludicrous. Wholly made up," said Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, co-author of "To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment."

It'south as simple as the first of  Section one of the 22nd Amendment, Academy of Missouri constabulary professor and impeachment skilful Frank Bowman told us. It reads:

"No person shall be elected to the role of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

No person can be elected 3 times. Trump was elected in 2016, so he can simply win ballot one more fourth dimension. No impeachment exception.

Our ruling

A Facebook post claims: "If Trump is impeached in the house & not senate, he can run 2 more times."

Plain and unproblematic, a person can be elected to merely ii terms every bit president. No exceptions.

We charge per unit the merits Pants on Fire.

Facebook, mail, December. twenty, 2019

PunditFact, "No, Donald Trump could not seek a third term if an impeachment trial failed," October. 2, 2019

Cornell Law School, 22nd Subpoena to the Constitution

Email, Frank Bowman, professor at the Academy of Missouri School of Law and writer of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump," January. 27, 2020

Email, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, co-author of "To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment," Jan. 27, 2020

Email, Vanderbilt University constitutional police force professor Suzanna Sherry, Jan. 27, 2020

Email, Michael Gerhardt, Academy of North Carolina professor of law and author of Impeachment: What Anybody Needs to Know, Jan. 27, 2020

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