Comments follow reports the US president discussed the idea with Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional scholar who defended him
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The US would be “lucky” if Donald Trump remained in office for a constitutionally-prohibited third term, the White House has said following revelations that he discussed the possibility with the lawyer and constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz.
The bold assertion came despite successive polls showing plunging approval ratings for Trump amid widespread discontent over his administration’s economic performance and lingering controversy over his links to the disgraced late financier and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
“There has never been an Administration that has accomplished as much in less than one year than the Trump Administration,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Axios
