Those talking about the 25th Amendment have no concept of its proper use
Washington Times:
Vice President Mike Pence says he has “never” been part of a conversation about invoking the 25th Amendment to potentially remove President Trump from office — a subject mentioned in a recent op-ed by an anonymous administration official.The 25th Amendment was written to take care of a situation where the President is in a coma because of illness or because of an assassination attempt. It was never intended to be used because liberals do not like the policies of the current President.
“No. Never. And why would we be?” Mr. Pence said in an interview for CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“I mean the truth of the matter is over the last eight years, despite what we heard from President Obama on Friday, I mean this country was struggling,” he said. “I mean, it was the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression because having inherited a recession, President Obama’s answer was to raise taxes, to double the national debt, to increase regulation, to pass Obamacare into law, to stifle American energy.”
The opinion piece by a “senior official” in the Trump administration, published last week by the New York Times, said there were “early whispers” within the Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows a majority of Cabinet members to tell Congress the president is incapable of discharging his duties and at least temporarily transfer the powers of the office to the vice president.
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