Letter: By his own logic, Trump shouldn’t be allowed to run

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Martin Wolf spells out all the negative consequences for the world of a Trump victory in next year’s US presidential race (Opinion, November 8).

Yet logically Donald Trump cannot be eligible to run for the presidency, because under the US constitution a president can only be elected for a maximum of two terms. As he denies that he lost the last election, he must therefore think himself to be the current president and therefore in the midst of his second term.

The only way he could be allowed to stand is if he admits that he lost the election, and that he was lying when he said that he had won. Let us hope that this argument will save the world!

Christopher Cruickshank
Kraainem, Belgium