XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.democrats, alt.politics.republicans XPost: talk.politics.misc
<
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-oath-support-constitution-colorado-insurrection-1847482>
Donald Trump Says He Never Swore Oath 'to Support the Constitution'
Published Nov 28, 2023
In their appeal against the Colorado lawsuit, Trump's lawyers reiterated
that the wording of Section Three does not apply to people running for
president and that Trump technically did not swear an oath to "support" the
Constitution. Instead, during his January 2017 inauguration, Trump swore to
"preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution during his role as
president.
<
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/04/trump-doesnt-know-if-he-needs-to-uphold-the-constitution>
“But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to
uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Welker asked.
“I don’t know,” Trump replied. “I have to respond by saying, again, I have
brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow
what the Supreme Court said.”
The oath of office, which Trump has now taken twice, is “I do solemnly
swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United
States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States.”
--
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
-- Dave Parnas
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)