The impeachment, or even his imprisonment, does not prevent Trump from being the candidate

Multiple judicial fronts opened by Donald Trump they do not represent a disturbance about their aspirations to return to the White House, since the US Constitution does not provide for restrictions on candidates in case they are indicted or even find themselves in prison.

The Magna Carta does not indicate the absence of a criminal record among the several criteria established for the presidency, since it only stipulates that the candidate must be a citizen birth, older than 35 years and lived at least 14 years in the United States. The 22nd amendment says that a person who has already served two terms cannot be president.

And there is little room for adding new requirements, as constitutional experts point out, recalling that there are already Supreme Court rulings that stipulate that Congress cannot add new requests occupy the highest political position in a North American country.

Technically, Trump could be the candidate even from prison, which would not be unheard of. During the 1920 election. Eugene Debbscandidate of the Socialist Party, was imprisoned for opposing the First World War and received 3% of the vote.

Thus, a hypothetical conviction or adoption of precautionary measures against Trump, currently the favorite in the Republican Party primaries, they would only limit his ability to campaign or even vote for himselfsince the right to vote is limited to people convicted of serious crimes or serving a sentence – they vary by state.

The tycoon has already made it clear that he has no plans to withdraw from the still-nascent race in the face of what he continues to see as a “witch hunt” by his political rivals, despite the fact that the crimes attributed to him in the documents filed could lead to sentences of up to 20 years in prison.