Donald Trump’s 25th Amendment proved his second administration before he took office. As discussed in my recent video and story, Trump chose loyalty over competence when he chose his Cabinet.
The president did this for a reason. Not only did he make it impossible for members of his administration to tell him no, but Trump also ensured that there would be no one in his administration who could muster the support necessary to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove him from office.
After the 1/6 attack, John Hudak prescribed Brookings:
America is not helpless right now. There is a way the government can protect the people from Donald Trump. The Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet can use Section IV of 25e Amendment to declare the President unfit. And he is. It would not throw out the results of the 2016 election, as some claim. It would reinforce that the people elected someone who swore an oath, that that person violated that oath, and that the 2016 election elected a vice president ready to fill the office if necessary. It is now imperative that Mike Pence become acting president.
It’s a complicated process, but it’s one that would allow a Republican loyal to his country, rather than just himself, to see out the remaining days of this administration. If the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet declare the president incapacitated, they relay that message to Congress and the powers of the presidency are transferred to Mike Pence. The president can inform Congress that he is no longer incapacitated, and again the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet can again inform Congress that the president remains incapacitated. At that point, the decision on the president’s elimination rests with Congress, which will discuss the matter and if a two-thirds majority of both the House and Senate agree to the president’s elimination, the powers of the presidency will remain with the vice president.
Trump replaced Mike Pence with ambitious sycophant JD Vance. It is Trump’s first chairman, Mike Johnson, not John Boehner or Paul Ryan, who is the Speaker of the House. John Thune, not Trump critic Mitch McConnell, is the Republican Senate majority leader.
Trump has removed his critics and replaced them with blind loyalists, so it will take a movement to impeach this president, and that movement starts with the letter he sent to European leaders.
European leaders have promised a strong response to Trump’s “economic blackmail.”
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