Bannon claims there's a plan for Trump to run for third term

Pro-Trump podcaster Steve Bannon, who briefly served as US President Donald Trump’s White House chief strategist in his first term, has publicly thrown his support behind the President’s talk of seeking a third term, in defiance of a constitutionally mandated two-term limit.

- Chris Cameron

In an interview with The Economist, the convicted fraudster vaguely asserted that there was “a plan” to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, which states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice”, regardless of whether the terms are consecutive. He also suggested that he was part of a team developing that plan.

“Trump is gonna be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that.

“At the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is,” Bannon said, without elaborating. “But there is a plan.”

He added that Mr Trump was an “instrument of divine will”, echoing - as the President himself has - the language of the divine right of kings.