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struggle4progress

(118,379 posts) Tue May 28, 2019, 10:20 PM May 2019

Invoke the 25th

JAMES JOYNER · FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2019

... the President .. is deranged.

Accused of .. a temper tantrum ... Trump .. put together a press conference during which he asked .. aides to attest to his calmness ...

The showcase was vintage Trump: the policy push of the day overwhelmed by internal insecurities and grievances with press coverage bursting into public view ...

This is sad and dangerous. It’s why the 25th Amendment provides procedures for ousting a President who’s demonstrably not up to the job. Instead of embarrassing themselves in public praising him, his top advisors need to seriously consider pulling the plug.

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/trump-so-calm-hasnt-lost-it/

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Invoke the 25th (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP

About more than the Mueller report struggle4progress May 2019 #1

Yeah, good luck PJMcK May 2019 #2

This again? FBaggins May 2019 #3

The only way this would happen is if Trump had a stroke Thomas Hurt May 2019 #4

Not going to happen. Read up on the process and you'll understand why. defacto7 May 2019 #5

struggle4progress

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1. About more than the Mueller report

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2019, 10:24 PM

May 2019

By Amber Phillips
May 28 at 11:35 AM

... He’s obstructing Congress’s probes: If the Mueller report outlining 10 areas of potential obstruction of justice by Trump didn’t sell them on impeachment, then Trump’s actions since the redacted report was released have. Trump is blocking some 20 probes into him and his administration, often blatantly. Last week came the breaking point for many Democrats. Under pressure from Trump, former White House counsel Donald McGahn — a key witness in Trump’s attempts to fire the special counsel and lie about it — ignored a subpoena to testify to Congress ...

He’s going around Congress every time he can’t get what he wants: Congress said no to funding his border wall, so Trump declared a national emergency to pull money from elsewhere to construct it. He fired the heads of the Department of Homeland Security over Congress’s objections. Last Friday, his administration announced he’s using another presidential power to declare an emergency to sell arms to Saudi Arabia over Congress’s objections and without letting Congress chime in as it usually does ...

Congress can’t get anything done until he’s impeached: This is a parallel argument to those who argue that Congress should consider impeaching Trump because he’s blocking congressional investigations into him. This extends to legislation as well ...

It’s now or never: The closer it gets to the 2020 presidential election, the more potent Trump’s argument becomes that Democrats are just trying to impeach him to avoid having to unseat him at the ballot box. So, impeachment supporters say, Democrats who are on the fence about impeachment should get on board soon, before it’s too late ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/28/impeachment-is-about-more-than-mueller-report/?utm_term=.d1706c77571c