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Wicked Blue

(5,832 posts)
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 11:04 PM Jan 2021

CNN: House Judiciary Committee Democrats urge Pence to invoke 25th Amendment

House Judiciary Committee Democrats urge Pence to invoke 25th Amendment

From CNN’s Manu Raju

Members of the House Judiciary Committee are urging Vice President Mike Pence and members from President Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution and remove Trump from office, according to a statement released Wednesday night by the committee members.

“Even in his video announcement this afternoon, President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is still unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election. President Trump’s willingness to incite violence and social unrest to overturn the election results by force clearly meet this standard. So too are his recent Tweets, which Twitter has since deleted, saying the election was ‘stolen’ and that today’s riots ‘are the things and events that happen,’” the members said in the statement.

CNN reported earlier that some Cabinet members are holding preliminary discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment, according to a well placed GOP source.

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CNN: House Judiciary Committee Democrats urge Pence to invoke 25th Amendment (Original Post) Wicked Blue Jan 2021 OP
Pence make him the Nixon offer? bullimiami Jan 2021 #1
I am sending a letter with @RepTedLieu and our colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee yaesu Jan 2021 #2
OH YES PLEASE!! TigressDem Jan 2021 #3
And with a second scoop PirateRo Jan 2021 #6
Then why is Trump making arrangements right now for his imminent departure? Eyeball_Kid Jan 2021 #4
He should but won't as he wants magat support in 2024. brush Jan 2021 #5

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
2. I am sending a letter with @RepTedLieu and our colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 11:06 PM
Jan 2021

calling on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office after today’s events.


TigressDem

(5,125 posts)
3. OH YES PLEASE!!
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 11:07 PM
Jan 2021

HE IS INCITING VIOLENCE against OUR GOVERNMENT and he has NEVER deserved to be in the White House.

GET HIM OUT NOW!!!


Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
4. Then why is Trump making arrangements right now for his imminent departure?
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 11:10 PM
Jan 2021

Of course he accepts his defeat. His incitement of a coup occurs WHILE he is planning his departure. He KNOWS that he's defeated. He's inciting a coup to REVERSE the election, given that the election ALREADY tells him the truth.

Were he in complete fantasy, he'd deny that the election was controversial at all, and that the official numbers pointed to his victory. That's the logic of psychosis. HE HAS ACCEPTED DEFEAT. He's trying to reverse the defeat, knowing that defeat is a fact. He's NOT psychotic. He's a criminal sociopath.

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