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Zeus posted...

That's completely untrue, and a good example of why you shouldn't get your political "facts" from Facebook memes and Tweets.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/fact-check-tweet-trump-impeachment-run-2024-secret-service/index.html

Do you even read your own fucking sources, Lightning Boy?

Neither a second House impeachment nor even a Senate vote to convict Trump and remove him from office would prevent him from running again, in 2024 or beyond.
Rather, after two-thirds of senators present voted to remove Trump, a simple majority of senators present would have to approve an additional vote to bar him from the presidency in the future.

The 2/3 vote to convict is the hard part. yes, it's technically an extra step after that to bar him from office ever again, but it only requires 51 votes, which the 50 Dems + Harris tie breaker can get by default (though if 17 Republicans vote to convict, presumably at least some would go w/ the additional vote, too).

As for the pension...

Trump would not lose his pension if the House impeached him for his role in inciting the insurrection -- just as he didn't lose his pension when the House impeached him in 2019 over his effort to use the US' relationship with Ukraine for his own political ends. Rather, under the Former Presidents Act, he would lose his pension only if the Senate voted to convict him and remove him from office.

You're literally just splitting hairs on the term "impeached" vs. "convicted", when I specified "if" he is...in a post made after the impeachment vote already passed. You know damn well what I meant.
If the Senate actually doesthe right thing and convicts him, he's losing his pension, and then in a super fucking easy follow up vote, he's stripped of the ability to run for federal office ever again, too.

Deal with it.