Adding to the madness of the 2016 US presidential election is American lawyer Andrew Basiago. He claims to have traveled through time nearly all his life, and is pretty sure that he's going to become "either president or vice¹ president" between 2016 and 2028. Polling data is obviously of little use to this guy.

 

2016年美国总统大选又添一丝波澜，美国律师安德鲁·帕西哥宣布将参加大选。他声称自己几乎一生都在进行时空旅行，并且非常确定自己将在2016年到2028年期间成为美国总统或副总统。对于这个家伙，民意测评显然不管用了。

 

Basiago, a Washington-based attorney, first started talking about his experience with time travel in 2004, with Project Pegasus - a top secret organisation² studying the effects of time travel and teleportation on children. So between 1968 and 1972, when Basiago was a young boy of seven, he claims to have participated in several experiments that transported him through time, space, and even parallel universes. His mission, supposedly, was to provide the US President at the time with important information about past and future events.

 

Now, Basiago is using the 'knowledge' gained over years of time travel to further his political ambitions - he's running for president this year as an independent candidate, and is fairly confident he's going to win. "I have prior knowledge that not only will I run for president, but that during one of the elections - which would have to be between 2016 and 2028, because I'm not running past that - I'm either elected president or vice president," he explained, confidently.

 

Basiago's greatest qualification to hold office, of course, is his first-hand information of past and future events. Basiago claims to have gone back in time to 1863 and witnessed Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg. He's also been to the future - the year 2054 - so he as an idea of the pitfalls³ that a president should be avoiding. Having traveled widely in time, Basiago has held conversations with President Bush, President Clinton, and President Obama decades before they were elected to office, notifying them in advance of their presidencies⁴. More importantly, he has been to Mars in 1981, which makes for unrivaled experience in foreign relations.

 

But he's had enough of all the secrecy⁵ now. In the all-new version of Project Pegasus that he's leading himself, Basiago is campaigning for the US government to publicly disclose all the advances made in teleportation technology. He's calling for truth, reform, and innovation, which would benefit humanity as a whole and make transportation across the Earth and beyond instantaneous as well as environment friendly.

 

Basiago has lashed⁶ out at President Obama in particular, accusing him of lying and betrayal. He claims that as a teenager, Obama served as a fellow 'chrononaut' on the Mars mission in the '80s, but has disclosed nothing about it to the American public. Basiago calls this "literally⁷ lying, to deny the involvement of a set of Americans who put their lives at risk at a very young age, doing what their country asked of them." This, he believes, is telling of the "calculating, shallow opportunism" of the nation's current leadership.

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