Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek]
Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek]
Trump told Elon Musk in an interview that they could meet in Venezuela as it is "a far safer place to meet than our country."
Headline slightly sensationalised compared to article content. But he did say he’d go to Venezuela if he loses.
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As a former President, can he?
I'm not American, but my assumption was that the President's role was one for life, in that he will always have a presidential security detail with him, and while he can travel abroad it's probably only to countries with good diplomatic ties with the US.
A former President moving outside of a friendly jurisdiction could be a huge security issue that he couldn't just wave away.
He can do anything he wants. There are rules they follow for decorum, receiving security briefings, and retaining secret service protection.
If Trump were to move to Venezuela, for example, I can't imagine that they would support him both living there, potentially interfering as a man of influence, and retaining what is essentially a foreign militia on his grounds.
I'm sure that he could do what he wants by US rules, especially since there's probably no written rule somewhere that a former president can't just move abroad to retire, but what countries would afford him that kind of freedom, knowing that he supported a coup in his own country?