• psmgx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Speaker of the House is 3rd in line to be President if the Pres and VP are KIA / MIA.

    I absolutely believe MAGA (and likely backed by foreign intelligence) would make a play at assassinating the President if Trump was in a speaker role. They were looking to hang people on Jan 6th…

    You also have to, like, be an elected official of the House, so this is mostly MTG saying bullshit to retain the spotlight or deflect from dumb shit that Trump did, like getting slammed with a gag order. (Edit: I guess you don’t need to be in Congress. Go figure.)

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      1 year ago

      You don’t actually have to be a member of the House to be speaker. It can literally be anyone. It just never has been anyone else previously.