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Headline slightly sensationalised compared to article content. But he did say he’d go to Venezuela if he loses.
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As a former President, can he?
I’m not American, but my assumption was that the President’s role was one for life, in that he will always have a presidential security detail with him, and while he can travel abroad it’s probably only to countries with good diplomatic ties with the US.
A former President moving outside of a friendly jurisdiction could be a huge security issue that he couldn’t just wave away.
He can do anything he wants. There are rules they follow for decorum, receiving security briefings, and retaining secret service protection.
If Trump were to move to Venezuela, for example, I can’t imagine that they would support him both living there, potentially interfering as a man of influence, and retaining what is essentially a foreign militia on his grounds.
I’m sure that he could do what he wants by US rules, especially since there’s probably no written rule somewhere that a former president can’t just move abroad to retire, but what countries would afford him that kind of freedom, knowing that he supported a coup in his own country?
Show us you mean it by fleeing there now. Then stay there to really get the message across.
Did he too old to remember he’s a convicted criminal?
Wonder what Venezuela has to say about that.
That would be awesome he’d get a fair’trial there Im sure.
Why wait?
Let’s start a GoFundMe.
Interpol being notified? Escaped felons should be
Venezuela? that’s an odd choice. He’s distracting us from his Russian emigration plans
Y venezuela no es que va a estar favorable a trump por mucho tiempo
Venezuela is an odd choice, considering most of his kind have historically fled to Argentina.
That’s very true
Also, Milei is the same kind of crazy he is, wheras he’s been shitting on Maduro and Vz forever.
He’s been shitting on Maduro, but aren’t his tariffs a large part of why Maduro is in power? IIRC, his tariffs basically allowed Maduro to consolidate money and power.
You’re right, and he probably thought he was saying Argentina.
He… probably doesn’t know the difference at this point…
Is that a promise?
I’m sure they’d LOVE to have him after all the things he’s said about their country
I’d ask him to promise, but I know what his promises are worth.
Yeah, there’s no way. However, if he said if he wins he knows Kamala is going to flee the country, I would 100% bet everything I own he’s taking off. Projection is real.
Evil commie Venezuela (as Republicans keep painting it)? Is that really the angle he’s going for?
Venezuela is an ally of Russia.
Venezuela is an authoritarian state (for the moment).
Venezuela is thus perfect for Trump.
It all makes more sense when you realize these people don’t know what ‘communism’ or ‘socialism’ are. It’s just an alternative word for ‘bad’ to them. I once heard a Republican blame companies raising gas prices at the pump on ‘socialism’.
It was in the midst of claiming Venezuela dumped all of its criminals in the US. In Trump’s view Venezuela is safer than the US since America let all the Venezuelan criminals in through that open border.
Yeah, but imagine if it were the 60s and that claim was being made about the USSR, that it’s safer than the US because all the criminals were sent to America, so he’s going to go to the USSR if he loses.
The Republicans are still stuck in “we hate commies” mode. So this is a very weird thing for Trump to say.
So in other words, it’s business as usual then lol
It’s really just balancing the criminal deficit to send them a 34x convicted criminal.
Very smart to say this publicly just a couple months before sentencing for 34 felony convictions.
5 weeks until sentencing. In theory
Yet another campaign promise he will likely break.
