Posted on 09/06/2018 6:17:47 PM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday she believes it’s 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 president’s “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 — it’s 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 Woodward’s 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 Trump’s 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.
Tonight’s wide distribution narrative....
I am surprised she didn’t invoke the Cherokee incantation against evil spirits...
Burning Beaver should take a Midol and let it go.
Fake Injun Squaw has been taking far too much peyote
I wish someone would make out a list of Presidents Trump’s accomplishments, such as 1,2,3,4, and so on. I know he done a lot more in that short time he has been in office than any one else. Such a list would be a handy and delightful arguing point with any socialist, show him or her this list and then ask what is it you don’t like about it? I am aware of some of his accomplishments but by no means of all of them and I am sure there are quite a few amongst you who can fill in what I would be missing. Thank you in advance...
Grey Beaver has been drinking fire water. Has there ever been a more unlikable woman?
“Burning Beaver” LOL
She’s very carful to police up any water glass she’s used in public least someone swipes it for a DNA test.
One way for the stupid sunt to take out the real competition!
How’s it feel, Warren, to be so powerless that all you can do is bloviate like this?
It feels really good to me.
First president since Reagan to accomplish good things. Yea, gotta stop that right now.
I call for sedition charges against Warren.
We Americans need to get together and get ready to hammer these commie bitches with the same crap they’ve been hammering the President with. As the returns are coming in in November, we need to start filing recall petitions and start impeachment proceedings as applicable against each ‘RAT bastard who wins in November. Nobody can say the bastards don’t have it coming.
Crazy Whorse
CrazyAunt Liz.
It’s a microcosm of the microscopic circles in which the Dem pols and DC media operate. They hatch the most bizarre, contrived, unlikely and unworkable plans with help from lefty crazies on staff. The gormless media don’t laugh at their Wile E Coyote schemes, they reinforce the madness by broadcasting it and trating it as a sane, practical plan.
Dems are no longer clutching at straws - all the straws are gone. They are now grasping empty air.
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