Trump calls for modifying 25th Amendment to make it possible to remove a vice president

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: CNN via AOL News

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called for “modifying” the 25th Amendment to allow for the removal of a vice president who “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president,” a political nonstarter and the latest escalation of his attacks on President Joe Biden and the change atop the Democratic ticket.

“If you do that with a cover-up of the president of the United States, it’s grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, beause that’s what they did,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.

In the wake of Biden’s poor June debate performance and his decision to end his presidential campaign a month later, Trump and his Republican allies have accused Vice President Kamala Harris and top Democrats of covering up a decline in the president’s mental fitness.

The Harris campaign declined to comment on Trump’s remarks on Saturday.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-calls-modifying-25th-amendment-203601963.html

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This barrel has no bottom.

[kimbutgar]

1. VP Harris is right

You never argue with a fool.

[CrispyQ]

2. Somebody's worried he's gonna lose. -nt

[Srkdqltr]

3. Um... This is really too late? By the time a bill to modify the amendment is brought to the house and senate, voted on

Well the election will be over and done. Than Harris will be president and she will have immunity?
Stupid.

[FalloutShelter]

5. Is he perhaps attempting to

Set up a means to impeach Harris should she win?

On edit… it further occurs that if both Harris and Walz could be dispatched using this new twist on the 25th… then Johnson becomes President ( given the GOP holds Congress) and then he can make Trump’s legal problems go away. Is Trump preparing an escape hatch for his loss?

[Turbineguy]

24. Protecting himself from Vance?

Project 2025 has a 180 day goal.

[marble falls]

29. Absolutely, in case JD goes off the reservation or develops a sudden, out of the blue, sense of conscience or ethics.

[CapnSteve]

4. And I want Trump to withdraw and...

…report to prison. He and I have the same level of authority for our calls…NONE!

Fuck off, convict!

[turbinetree]

6. Does old "CLICKBAIT" fully understand it takes 3/4 of states to make an amendment

to do that....................what a fucking idiot..........

[Brother Buzz]

7. And maybe ten years out if it's a valid amendment

[turbinetree]

9. Maybe "Clickbait" would understand that the "only" reason why he was not barred for life was because of

the republican controlled senate and their spinelessness Rat***ing BS...................maybe someone should remind this "CLICKBAIT" idiot..............because the setup of how the Constitution was written kept him fricking power not once but twice by the ratF***king republican senate............

[chowder66]

8. If he had just written "capacity" then I would have thought this was because he was afraid JD would

run him out. Darn.

[turbinetree]

10. Now......... Now ................he has no capacity...........

[jmowreader]

11. I have a slightly better idea

Add another amendment that requires anyone convicted of a felony in any court in the land be disqualified from the presidency.

[Warpy]

12. Maybe he dimly realizes JD is no loyalist and is snapping at his heels

JD probably realizes TFG will be impeached and removed over those 34 felony convictions and he'll get the job, which he is exactly as prepared for as TFG was in 2016 and can be counted upon to do at least as bad a job and even more damage.

And that's on the days he doesn't think he's losing because JD is such an asshole. He's probably tried to fire JD and been shocked that he can't, not before the election and not after.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Borowitz has really outdone himself with this one !

I mean, where does he get these crazy ideas ?

[cstanleytech]

14. Best response to this and most of the other bullshit that spews or does is silence people.

He's using the same playbook that he did last time which was saying all sorts of bullshit to get as much free PR and people talking about him as he could and falling for it a second time is a mistake.

[FakeNoose]

15. One way to "remove" a VP is to promote her to the Oval Office

Is that what Chump has in mind?

Hmmm .....

[Yavin4]

16. This is not a policy. This is an emotional appeal to his base.

He has no core policies other than whatever gets him applause by his base.

[JoseBalow]

17. Shut the fuck up, Donny

[Evolve Dammit]

18. No, the barrel has no bottom.

[BaronChocula]

19. Crazy like Manson

Donald Manson
Charles Trump

[twodogsbarking]

20. Can Pence be charged, eh Don?

[JohnnyRingo]

21. Since Trump is known to project himself onto political enemies.....

I imagine his running mate is covering Trump's "mental fitness".

[Shoonra]

22. This makes the Speaker of the House the President

If the President is mentally disabled, and his/her VP is disqualified from becoming President, then the Presidency goes to the Speaker of the House. This is probably not what anyone really wants.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

23. 10,000 amendments have been proposed

https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-constitution-amendments/proposed-amendments/

[Brainfodder]

25. Felon knows he can lie on media so he is.

When all the cases are over, how many digits in his total prison time?

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Of course! A necessary step to becoming a christofascist dictator.

[unblock]

27. The vice president is already subject to impeachment and removal without an amendment

He's a constitutional idiot, and this is an example of media sane-washing.

The fact that he's confusing the impeachment process with removal of the president under the 25th amendment should feature more prominently in the story.

Particularly given that he's been impeached twice and there were calls for his removal under the 25th, he should be more familiar with these processes.

His confusion should be the story.

[Historic NY]

28. So he is still upset about PENCE... a VEEP can be removed by impeachment. Trump wants absolute power.