Posted on 09/06/2018 6:17:47 PM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday she believes its time for White House officials to invoke the 25th Amendment and begin the process of removing President Trump from office.
The comments come one day after a blistering op-ed published in The New York Times by an anonymous senior administration official that blasted Trump as amoral and anti-democratic and said staffers must constantly rebut the presidents misguided impulses and worst inclinations.
"If senior administration officials think the president of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment," Warren told CNN. "The Constitution provides for a procedure whenever the vice president and senior officials think the president can't do his job. It does not provide that senior officials go around the president take documents off his desk, write anonymous op-eds. ... Every one of these officials have sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. It's time for them to do their job, she added.
The author of the Times op-ed said the idea of removing Trump from office had already been floated by his top aides.
Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until one way or another its over, the administration official wrote.
Warren denied such a move precipitate a constitutional crisis and argued that the op-ed presented a clear need for change in the oval office.
"What kind of a crisis do we have if senior officials believe that the president can't do his job and then refuse to follow the rules that have been laid down in the Constitution?" she asked. "They can't have it both ways. Either they think that the president is not capable of doing his job, in which case they follow the rules in the Constitution, or they feel that the president is capable of doing his job, in which case they follow what the President tells them to do."
The White House came out swinging against the op-ed Wednesday, with Trump calling the author gutless and arguing he or she committed an act of treason.
"This coward should do the right thing and resign, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
The impact of the op-ed is compounded by the release of excerpts from Watergate journalist Bob Woodwards upcoming book about the inner workings of the Trump administration.
The book includes damaging anecdotes such as Trump calling Attorney General Jeff Sessions mentally retarded, chief of staff John Kelly calling Trump an idiot and former Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn removing a letter from Trumps desk to prevent him from pulling out of NAFTA.
The 25th Amendment provides a procedure for replacing the president involving his Cabinet sending a letter to Congress explaining why the president should no longer be in office. Congress would then need a two-thirds vote in both chambers to remove the president and replace him with the vice president.
While a handful of Democrats in Congress have discussed impeachment, efforts to remove Trump from office before 2020 have largely been dismissed by Democratic leaders such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.).
Warren, who is running for reelection this year in a race she is expected to easily win, is considered by many to be one of many potential 2020 candidates for president.
Warren has feuded with Trump in the past, emerging as a prominent critic of the administration. Trump in turn has repeatedly dismissed her as Pocahontas, referring to her controversial claims of having Native American ancestry.
These people are lunatics.
Keep egging on the civil war.
Me thoughtum she doing War dance but turns outum she have big case of beaver crabs
Sounds like the Anonymous source was Elizabeth Warren!
This has transitioned to a pseud coup to an actual democrat sponsored coup, Putin must be laughing his ass off to discover a simple means to destroy our democracy.
I expect Trump to fight back. Certain people need to be rounded up in the middle of the night and interrogated at Guantanamo bay. This is sedition in it’s most evil form.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.[3]
Can’t wait to vote against this hag in November.
Of course they are lying. Lying is what leftist academics do, especially when it supports another leftist academic.
But in the end it doesn't matter much, because of the simple reality that Warren knowingly submitted false job applications in order to take advantage of hiring preferences for non-whites. That was a fraud. She is fully responsible for that fraud, and it should disqualify her for public office. Also, Harvard should have fired her when her fraud was revealed, and we should never have heard of her after that.
The problem with treason is it enciurages enemies...this is a real life example...
I call for criminal charges for fraud by Senator Warren by stealing Indian support monies for education in college by her white ass pretending to be an Indian.
My call is founded in reality unlike hers.
She is a Seditionist, and should be impeached.
If senior administration officials think the president of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment,”
Yes, and if they think he is fine, then they should NOT invoke it. So, invoke it Warren, unless you think hes fine. Put up or shut up. Youre a senator, right? You could lead this if you think its necessary. Otherwise, STFU.
Bill Clinton and I say Hillary.
Warren has no credibility. Anyone who would fabricate her Indian identity to get favorable school admittance has lost her credibility. Now she is basing her call to invoke the 25th Amendment on a fabricated op-ed. That has compounded her lack of credibility.
Imagine these harpies from the time they get up to the time they go to sleep submerged with the emotion of hate. Every time there is a lull in their hatred, they just visualize Trump and they are back in the race. For them hate is the core of their obsessive disorder much like a chocolate junkie needs that chocolate fix throughout their waking hours. It is a hell of an empty life. Wasted.
Agreed. The tactic of the extreme left cabal is to so demonize PDJT that he simply wont be able to function and/or hell be so distracted defending himself that he can be portrayed as mental and possibly removed. Theyre still in the demonizing stage but eventually may try to remove him ( either via impeachment or the 25th amendment). At that time, fake injun squaw may very well Help lead the charge. She sure sounds like it. Watch for them to trot out a couple GOPe types to make their attempted putsch look legitimate. That will be the final attack signal , imho.
Well, they say hate does more damage to the hater, than it does to the hatee, so I hope it damages them greatly. I got no time for the wenches.
Its the soap box, the ballot box, and hmmm, whats that other box? I forgot. 😁🤣
I think Lazamataz sp? had list earlier in the year of Trump accomplishments
Warren’s a nut.
End of story.
every morning I wake up thinking I will read a story about a coup attempt..
she has always reminded me of a neurotic grammar school teacher I once had.
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