Posted on 02/16/2019 9:56:40 PM PST by bitt
Former top FBI lawyer James Baker, in closed-door testimony to Congress, detailed alleged discussions among senior officials at the Justice Department about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, claiming he was told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said two Trump Cabinet officials were “ready to support” such an effort.
The testimony was delivered last fall to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. Fox News has confirmed portions of the transcript. It provides additional insight into discussions that have returned to the spotlight in Washington as fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe revisits the matter during interviews promoting his forthcoming book.
Baker did not identify the two Cabinet officials. But in his testimony, the lawyer said McCabe and FBI lawyer Lisa Page came to him to relay their conversations with Rosenstein, including discussions of the 25th Amendment.
“I was being told by some combination of Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, that, in a conversation with the Deputy Attorney General, he had stated that he -- this was what was related to me -- that he had at least two members of the president’s Cabinet who were ready to support, I guess you would call it, an action under the 25th Amendment,” Baker told the committees.
The 25th Amendment provides a mechanism for removing a sitting president from office. One way that could happen is if a majority of the president’s Cabinet says the president is incapable of discharging his duties.
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Rope. We need rope.
And some trees.
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BUCKLE UP!!! Looks like we’re going to start seeing some docs!
First up in my book is Tillerson, a first clas weasel.
Just a guess...
One was Priebus?
(Whiskey gulf alpha foxtrot) is all I can say about that.
Names...
I wouldn’t be surprised if Tillerson was one of the turncoats.
A lot of both...and lampposts will do just fine
I’m just guessing, but the two cabinet officials were probably Sessions and Mattis. The Senate ought to drag this out and have the two officials named, and force them to give testimony. If it’s Sessions....I suspect he was preparing this coup episode shortly after the election.
Were there two cabinet members who were compromised? Or who might be complicit in other activities they could be blackmailed over? How badly were they doing in their positions and in danger of being canned?
Just consider, there well may be more to this than what is implied by anonymous “sources”.
So many are no longer there.
This could have all the credibility of the usual “unnamed sources”.
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Rosenstein told the meeting group that Sessions would go along with the plan.
It was in the original reporting.
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Him and McMaster would be my guess.
Baker was told by Rosenstein... Good lord... No actual information here...
James Baker lives to deceive. Just ask Carter Page.
In many countries these people would face a firing squad.
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