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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,212 posts)
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:21 PM Feb 2019

Elizabeth Warren endorses use of 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a 2020 candidate for president, on Sunday endorsed the idea of President Trump's team invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office if the circumstances call for it.

“My point here is that if they believe that Donald Trump cannot fulfill the obligations of his office, then they have a constitutional responsibility to invoke the 25th Amendment,” Warren said during a press conference following a campaign rally in Las Vegas. “Their loyalty under law is not to him personally. It is to the Constitution of the United States and to the people of United States.”

Warren, a frequent target of Trump's due to her dubious past claims to Native American ancestry, is increasingly defining herself as the 2020 candidate to use provocative comments to counter the president's bellicose brand of rhetoric. For instance, Warren told an Iowa crowd last week Trump "may not even be a free person" by the time the 2020 election comes around.

Discussion about the 25th Amendment was rekindled last week after former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe corroborated past reporting and testimony that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed removing Trump from the presidency with the help of the vice president and Trump's Cabinet in the days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elizabeth-warren-endorses-use-of-25th-amendment-to-remove-trump-from-office/ar-BBTJSNv?li=BBnb7Kz

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Elizabeth Warren endorses use of 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 OP
I would love to see it used Andy823 Feb 2019 #1
and after the cabinet, 2/3 of both houses? (n/t) thesquanderer Feb 2019 #7
E.W. is one of the sharpest Democrats on the national stage. If she oasis Feb 2019 #2
It works for me. Trump is nuts and a danger to all of us. Vinca Feb 2019 #3
Its really common sense. All one has to do is objectively look at the insane behavor of this ooky Feb 2019 #4
Why did our forefathers bdamomma Feb 2019 #5
Just as long as we're not stuck with Pence in the bargain sandensea Feb 2019 #6
Isn't the president suppose to be incapacitated Mr. Frost Feb 2019 #8
He is mentally incapacitated Bayard Feb 2019 #10
I thought it was just physical Mr. Frost Feb 2019 #11
Warren 2020! superpatriotman Feb 2019 #9

oasis

(49,409 posts)
2. E.W. is one of the sharpest Democrats on the national stage. If she
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:50 PM
Feb 2019

doesn't make it to the presidency, I'm sure she can land a spot in the Dem cabinet.

ooky

(8,929 posts)
4. Its really common sense. All one has to do is objectively look at the insane behavor of this
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:51 PM
Feb 2019

president. And so what we then find is a political party too partisan and cowardly to do its constitutional duty and instead exposing the flaws in our constitution, failing to protect us in the way it was meant to.

bdamomma

(63,922 posts)
5. Why did our forefathers
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:55 PM
Feb 2019

establish this of course it should be considered, we have a dangerous and unfit thing as pResident.

sandensea

(21,670 posts)
6. Just as long as we're not stuck with Pence in the bargain
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:55 PM
Feb 2019

Sire Fetus Funeral is just as extreme - if not more so - and just as complicit in Trussiagate besides (through his brother Ed).

Hell, Putin hand-picked him after all.

Bayard

(22,154 posts)
10. He is mentally incapacitated
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 04:32 PM
Feb 2019

He cannot perform his job in a sane manner, and is a danger to the country in many ways.

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