Alex Crisafulli
1 min readFeb 10, 2021

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If the Senate fails to convict Trump, very targeted legislation should be attached to a censure that would severely curb presidential power; as well as leave section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prevent him from running for office again as an open option if Trump starts to stir up trouble. An impeachment conviction would not be necessary because this strategy would only require a simple majority vote in each congressional chamber, would prevent Trump from running for office again, and would limit the ability of any future president to abuse the powers that Trump did.

I explain all of this more fully in The War After the Election [https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-war-after-the-election-545de96aa4ca?source=friends_link&sk=627c55d616d9296af3e398f1686493a4] and in a link at the end of it that explains the legislation. The article also summarizes the findings of the Transition Integrity Project, a group that included former Congressmen, United States Senators, previous cabinet members, White House Chiefs of Staffs, Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security and state governors whose “war games” in June of 2020 predicted almost exactly what happened leading up to the Capitol attack..

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