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zenabby

(364 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 03:40 PM Aug 2016

How is this legally possible?

1. Trump's physcial medical certificate - seems like a fake. Is this not obvious for FBI to investigate? It has to be simple. If you have to join a job that is physically strenuous, they don't let you bring your own doctor, they have their own tests. Is there nothing like that?
2. Trump's mental state - Obviously something is wrong - is there no recourse - are there no mandated mental tests to be the president?
3. His finances, connections, taxes etc - No tax returns at all.

We have no clue what's going on with this private citizen. How can he become the president? How come he is not being vetted better?

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brooklynite

(94,602 posts)
2. US Constitution, Article II, Section 1:
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 03:49 PM
Aug 2016

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

That's it.

zenabby

(364 posts)
4. That' s true but..
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 03:53 PM
Aug 2016

What if the candidate had cancer or alzheimer's, schizophrenia or something serious? We take the candidate at their word? Does the public (in Sean Hannity's words) not have a right to know?

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
5. JFK concealed his Addison's disease and in fact straight up lied about it
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:15 PM
Aug 2016

he was in terrible physical pain most days and taking a cocktail of assorted drugs including methamphetamines, painkillers, hormone injections, cortisone injections, etc, and the public didn't have any idea until years after.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
9. Polio, Addison's, and Alzheimers...and those are the ones we know about now.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:43 PM
Aug 2016

And I'm sure there have been a few alcoholics along the way, too.

You either believe in the constitution, or you don't.

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
3. I remember a couple of company physicals . One has balance test I didn't think I could pass
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 03:50 PM
Aug 2016

but I did . It was easier than it looked . One physical I took said I needed correction for color blindness ,but I had an old pair of safety glasses with correction from a past job. I put the glasses on and saw all the colored numbers and letters I was missing. Turned out I had only seen about half of the 25 or so
Never wore them since my position didn't work with that many colors. Of course weight , lifting ability , just depends on the job.
JFK,FDR,even Taft presidents with restrictions
But maybe the real test for Trump should be a psychological evaluation
He's craaaazy

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
7. I'm the most vetted candidate in history.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:34 PM
Aug 2016

Believe me. Believe me. No one has been as vetted as much as Donald Trump. And Donald Trump knows more about vetting than anyone. I'm the only person who can properly vet people. You know they didn't really vet Lying Ted. His father killed JFK! Sad. Very sad. But we beat him. Bigly! Very bigly. A bunch of very qualified candidates. Very, very qualified. More qualified than crooked Hillary. This, I can tell you. This, I can tell you. But our numbers we're so good, so good. That's why we're winning. But vetting? Nobody knows vetting better than me and nobody can vet better than me.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
11. haha
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:53 PM
Aug 2016

It's gotten to the point where I have to mute the TV if he's on. He irritates me to no end. Just listening to the way he breathes makes me want to punch him.

Glamrock

(11,802 posts)
12. I've felt that way about him for years.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:01 PM
Aug 2016

But it's fairly more pronounced now. Believe me, believe me.

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