“It includes a prohibition against running for elective office.”
So you are saying this statute is applicable to former Presidents.
I’m calling bullshit.
“When the President does it,that means it is not illegal.”
Since the election of Washington this has been the way Presidential politics worked for 233 years.
However, in the Trump Era the kooks & crazies have crossed the Rubicon.
Where these lunatics are headed nobody knows.
Most every reasonable person agrees with you.
What the enemy did was fish out a statute, connect to a small National Archives matter, and make a headline. This is what they do.