Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has stirred a new political firestorm after suggesting that there is an active plan to help Donald Trump secure a third presidential term—a move that would directly challenge the 22nd Amendment.

In an interview with The Economist, Bannon boldly declared, “He’s gonna get a third term. Trump ’28—Trump is gonna be president ’28, so people just ought to get accommodated with that.”

When pressed by The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes about the constitutional limits, Bannon claimed there were “many different alternatives” to achieve it. “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is,” he said. “But there’s a plan, and President Trump will be the president in ’28.”

Bannon, who has remained one of Trump’s most vocal allies since leaving the White House, framed the effort as a continuation of a divine mission. “The country needs him to be President of the United States. We have to finish what we started,” he told The Economist.

He described Trump as an “instrument of divine will”—noting that while the former president isn’t “churchy,” he still sees himself as chosen to lead the nation through what Bannon and many of Trump’s supporters view as a battle against the deep state.

Bannon’s claim echoes Trump’s own remarks. On multiple occasions, Trump has hinted at serving beyond the traditional two terms. In March, during an interview with NBC News, he said, “A lot of people want me to seek a third term. I’m focused on the current one, but there are methods which you could do it.”

When pressed about what those “methods” might entail—including a scenario in which Vice President JD Vance runs for president and later hands back the office—Trump responded, “That’s one, but there are others too.”

Constitutional experts quickly pushed back, warning that Trump allies may be exploring legal loopholes in the 22nd and 12th Amendments.

Laurence Tribe, a constitutional scholar and former Harvard Law professor, cautioned that the 22nd Amendment doesn’t technically bar someone from serving more than two terms—it only prohibits being elected to more than two.

“Anyone discounting a 3rd Trump term per the 22nd and 12th Amendments is thinking magically,” Tribe wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “The 22nd doesn’t bar serving a 3rd term, only being elected 3 times. The 12th doesn’t bar running for VP unless ‘ineligible’ to serve as President—but Trump isn’t ineligible. QED!”

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. . .Steve Bannon will join hundreds of political prisoners who have been wrongfully incarcerated during the Biden administration when he turns himself into the Federal Correctional Institution Danbury, a low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

Some suspect the former White House chief strategist will be housed in protective custody of the Sentencing Handling Unit, or SHU, of the Danbury prison as have been other high-profile celebrity inmates.

But FCI Danbury, which houses over 1,000 inmates, most of whom are sex offenders, doesn’t have individual cells. Instead, inmates are housed in open pods.

A Jan. 6 political prisoner, who has been transferred to 26 correctional facilities while in pretrial detention, described what life will look like for Bannon behind the gates of the Connecticut prison.

“If Bannon were to be sent to a U.S. penitentiary, he would be killed, but the low security prison in Danbury is where most prisoners would prefer to do their time,” political prisoner Ryan Samsel told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview on a surveilled call from MDC Brooklyn, a prison where inmates are regularly stabbed to death. (Read more from “Steve Bannon Begins Prison Term, Here’s What His Life Will Look Like” HERE)

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