Bill Cassidy, one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, was confronted on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning regarding Trump following the U.S. Constitution if elected to a second term.
“Now, that is a hypothetical and that is hard for me to, kind of, go at,” the senator from Louisiana told host Kristen Welker. “That’s the kind of question people ask almost begging an answer. We have checks and balances in our system that if any one person attempts to act in an unconstitutional fashion, they can be theoretically checked.”
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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