Has Donald Trump ‘DQ’d’ Himself from the Presidency?

No, not Dairy Queened, disqualified. He may need some “aid or comfort” because of a simple federal statute.

Gippolito Ndp
5 min readMar 12, 2023
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Here’s something Donald Trump felt compelled to blast out on his social media platform called Truth Social, following Tucker Carlson’s recent shameless and shameful attempt to rewrite Jan 6th through videos provided by his pal Kev McCarthy:

Truth Social screenshot by author, accessed 3/11/23

As goofy and false as the entire post is, I’d like to focus on just one small part:

…and those imprisoned and being persecuted should be exonerated and released, NOW!

I’m pretty sure he was talking about the many hundreds of his people who have been arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and punished for their participation in the January 6, 2021 insurrection or rebellion.

Here are some prior times he’s done the same thing, drawn from an article from November 2022 in the Huffington Post (original links left intact):

Former President Donald Trump has called for releasing everyone arrested for…

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Gippolito Ndp

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