President Donald Trump noted late last week that he believes Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) decision to convene a committee to discuss the 25th amendment is not about replacing him as president, but rather replacing Joe Biden with his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), if Biden wins the November presidential election.
Tweeting Friday, Trump noted that Pelosi said her target wasn&#8217;t the president &#8212; and that he believes she&#8217;s telling the truth.
“Crazy Nancy Pelosi is looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris,” Trump said. “The Dems want that to happen fast because Sleepy Joe is out of it!!!”
He later suggested, while hosting Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s show as part of a &#8220;virtual rally&#8221; event, that Democrats are desperate to reassure themselves that they will have leadership even if Biden is eventually judged unfit to hold office.
&#8220;Let’s assume the Democrats are gonna vote for, you know, sleepy Joe, which is ridiculous because Joe shouldn’t be a candidate,” Trump said. “Joe is in no condition to be a candidate. We can say it nicely or we can say it badly. The 25th Amendment that crazy Nancy’s playing around with — she’s gone crazy, she’s a nut job — but this 25th Amendment, I think they put it in so they can get Kamala in.&#8221;
Trump, of course, has repeatedly intimated that Biden suffers from some serious illness.
Indeed, despite Pelosi&#8217;s remarks at several conferences over the course of the last week, actually wielding the 25th amendment &#8212; which provides a process by which the president can be removed from office and replaced with the Vice President if he is judged unfit by members of his Cabinet or a majority of both houses of Congress &#8212; would be next to impossible. The final decision would be left up to the Vice President, Mike Pence, in any case, and Pence is unlikely to stage his own coup against his boss.
Nevertheless, Pelosi formed the &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; &#8220;Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office Act&#8221; last week with several prominent Democrats, to &#8220;study&#8221; whether there is a need for legislative guidelines on how to remove an incapacitated president.
&#8220;The Democrats&#8217; legislation would address a provision of the 25th Amendment that allows for the vice president and a majority of &#8216;such other body as Congress may by law provide” to determine that the president is &#8220;unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/09/25th-amendment-pelosi-raskin-pitch-bill-presidential-succession/5935677002/">USA Today reported Friday</a>. &#8220;Congress has never acted on the provision.&#8221;
Although Pelosi suggested, on The View last week, that the coronavirus &#8212; and a corticosteroid that doctors prescribed to Trump to aid his recovery from COVID-19 &#8212; could mean Trump lacks the ability to govern competently, she insisted Friday that the new committee was &#8220;not about President Trump,” and that  Trump &#8220;will face the judgment of the voters, but he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents.&#8221;
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On Thursday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had announced that she planned to join Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to discuss the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), disgusted with yet another attempt to remove the president, fired back on Twitter, “These people have no limits. They are hungry for power, nothing else. We can’t let them win this.”
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These people have no limits. They are hungry for power, nothing else. We can’t let them win this. <a href="https://t.co/kpMLFhiIUO">https://t.co/kpMLFhiIUO</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1314301584763953175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As Kyle Cheney of Politico noted, “RASKIN has already filed very similar legislation. It creates a congressional body (which is actually contemplated in the 25th amendment itself) made up of doctors, psychiatrists and former executive branch officials to make judgments if a president&#8217;s health is failing.”
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RASKIN has already filed very similar legislation. It creates a congressional body (which is actually contemplated in the 25th amendment itself) made up of doctors, psychiatrists and former executive branch officials to make judgments if a president&#39;s health is failing.
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Cheney was referring to Raskin’s bill, House Resolution 1987, which had scores of co-sponsors and was filed in April 2017, which <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1987">stated</a>:
<blockquote>This bill establishes in the legislative branch an Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity to determine whether the President is mentally or physically unable to discharge the powers and duties of office.
The commission: (1) within 72 hours after Congress adopts a concurrent resolution directing it to do so, shall conduct a medical examination to determine if the President is temporarily or permanently impaired by physical illness or disability, mental illness, mental deficiency, or alcohol or drug use to the extent that he or she lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to execute the powers and duties of the office of President; and (2) within 72 hours after completing the examination, shall report its findings and conclusions to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate.
Any refusal by the President to undergo such examination shall be taken into consideration by the commission in reaching a conclusion.</blockquote>
Raskin said at the time the resolution was filed, “The 25th Amendment was adopted 50 years ago, but Congress has never set up the body it calls for to determine presidential fitness in the event of physical or psychological incapacity. Now is the time to do it.”
The resolution got as far as to be referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice before the effort stalled.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-democrats-to-hold-event-to-discuss-the-25th-amendment-removing-trump-from-office">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier Thursday, Pelosi stated, “Tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow. We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment. But not to take attention away from the subject we have now … I’m not talking about it today except to tell you, if you want to talk about that, we’ll see you tomorrow. But you take me back to my point, Mr. President, when was the last time you had a negative test before you tested positive? Why is the White House not telling the country that important fact about how this made a hotspot of the White House?”
In an interview on ABC&#8217;s “The View,&#8221; Pelosi suggested that key White House staffers stage an “intervention” on the president to address his “erratic” behavior following his coronavirus diagnosis, The Daily Wire added.
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President Donald Trump and prominent Republicans fired back at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Thursday afternoon after the Speaker suggested that she and Democrats will hold &#8220;discussions&#8221; Friday about the 25th Amendment, presumably to talk over how to potentially remove the president from office.
Retweeting a supporter who suggested that Democrats were &#8220;already plotting&#8221; to &#8220;get Trump out&#8221; if the president wins re-election in November, Trump added that &#8220;Crazy Nancy&#8221; should be evaluated for her own mental fitness.
&#8220;Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation. They don’t call her Crazy for nothing!&#8221; he tweeted.
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Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation. They don’t call her Crazy for nothing! <a href="https://t.co/7vE0Jvq0dM">https://t.co/7vE0Jvq0dM</a>
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Pelosi announced her &#8220;event&#8221; at her weekly press conference Thursday morning, telling reporters that, “[t]omorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow. We&#8217;re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment. But not to take attention away from the subject we have now.&#8221;
Later on Thursday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/520191-pelosi-were-going-to-be-talking-about-25th-amendment">The Hill reports</a>, Pelosi said that she and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) were planning a commission &#8220;to determine whether a president is fit for office.&#8221;
&#8220;Raskin originally introduced legislation in 2017 — which did not get any legislative action since Republicans controlled the House at the time — that would create an Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity comprised of physicians, psychiatrists and retired public officials like former presidents and Cabinet secretaries,&#8221; The Hill added. &#8220;Congressional leaders would be responsible for naming members of the commission.&#8221;
The plan also includes some proposed legislation.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve got my 25th Amendment legislation from the last Congress, H.R. 1987, which I&#8217;m going to be dusting off and reintroducing,&#8221; Raskin told The Hill.
On Wednesday, Pelosi suggested that Trump&#8217;s faculties might be compromised, either by the novel coronavirus, which Trump was diagnosed with last week or because of dexamethasone, a corticosteroid Trump&#8217;s doctors prescribed to help with recovery. Internet sleuths, who discovered a list of dexamethasone side effects, have, since last week, insisted that Trump could be suffering from delusions.
Pelosi has an uphill battle. According to the 25th Amendment itself, which governs succession if and when the president is no longer capable of discharging his duties, the vice president and either a majority of Cabinet members or a majority of both houses of Congress must agree to depose the president before any action can be taken to replace him.
Prominent Republicans also seem reticent to get on board with Pelosi&#8217;s plan. Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) even went so far as to accuse Pelosi of orchestrating a &#8220;coup.&#8221;
&#8220;I wouldn’t put it past <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi" data-focusable="true">@SpeakerPelosi</a> to stage a coup,&#8221; Green tweeted. &#8220;She has already weaponized impeachment, what’s to keep her from weaponizing the 25th amendment? We need a new Speaker!&#8221;
Arizona&#8217;s Rep. Andy Briggs added that &#8220;Congressional Democrats have not stopped their quest to remove President <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" data-focusable="true">@realDonaldTrump</a> from office since the day he was sworn into office, working night and day to overturn the will of Americans. Here is another installment of their pathetic series.&#8221;
Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia suggested that Republicans would take immediate action. &#8220;<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi" data-focusable="true">@SpeakerPelosi</a> will stop at NOTHING to take down <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" data-focusable="true">@realDonaldTrump</a>. First it was the Russia hoax, then sham impeachment. Now she’s trying to invoke the 25th amendment because he&#8230; fully recovered from the coronavirus? We won’t let her get away with it.&#8221;
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In her weekly press conference, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) informed media that she and other Democrats would be &#8220;discussing&#8221; the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution &#8212; the amendment that allows a majority of Cabinet officials, with the assent of the Vice President, to remove the President because he is unfit to hold office.
Democrats have suggested deploying the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office before, but this is the first time that leadership &#8212; notably, the Speaker of the House &#8212; has seemingly endorsed the idea.
Speaking to reporters Thursday, Pelosi hinted that Democrats would be discussing the issue seriously at their event Friday.
“Tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow. We&#8217;re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment. But not to take attention away from the subject we have now,” she said.
When pressed for further information, Pelosi demurred.
“I’m not talking about it today except to tell you, if you want to talk about that, we’ll see you tomorrow,” she said. “But you take me back to my point, Mr. President, when was the last time you had a negative test before you tested positive? Why is the White House not telling the country that important fact about how this made a hotspot of the White House?”
The 25th amendment allows for the vice president to sign off a plan to replace the president if a majority of Cabinet officials (or a majority of Congress, in specific instances) agree that the president is unfit to serve in office. It also allows the president to pass off duties to the vice president if he believes he cannot serve, even for just a short period of time.
Trump has not, at any time during his battle with coronavirus, passed his duties on to Vice President Mike Pence.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is well known for suggesting that Democrats initiate the complicated process to remove Trump from office, and pressed the Cabinet to hold a vote to end Trump&#8217;s tenure <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-25th-amendment-democrat-swalwell-constitution-mentally-unfit-1268239">back in 2018</a>. The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-wear-wire-25th-amendment.html">New York Times reported</a>, also in 2018, that before resigning, deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein suggested that he secretly record Oval Office meeting with the president in order to help convince Cabinet members to start the removal process following the president&#8217;s decision to fire then-FBI director James Comey.
Pelosi floated the idea of questioning Trump&#8217;s fitness for office on Wednesday in an appearance on The View, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-says-white-house-staff-should-stage-an-intervention-because-somethings-wrong-with-president">Daily Wire reported earlier on Thursday</a>. In the interview, Pelosi suggested that key White House staffers stage an &#8220;intervention&#8221; on the president to address his &#8220;erratic&#8221; behavior following his coronavirus diagnosis. She even went so far as to quote amateur social media doctors who theorized, earlier this week, that a corticosteroid, dexamethasone, that doctors prescribed to the president to aid in his recovery, could be impacting his ability to think clearly.
“I don’t know, but there are those healthcare providers who say that,” Pelosi said. She later added that the president is likely in &#8220;denial&#8221; about his condition.  “Also, if you have the coronavirus, it has an impact, as well. So the combination is something that should be viewed.”
“We should be concerned because of the virus and its viciousness, but also because of the denial the president is in,” she said. “There’s something wrong about the disconnect between what the president’s responsibilities are and what’s happening.”
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