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Speaker Johnson Slams Dems' 25th Amendment Push Against Trump
Newsmax ^ | 4/10/2026 | Charlie McCarthy

Posted on 04/10/2026 9:27:44 AM PDT by Signalman

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., criticized Democrats for what he described as their obsession with removing President Donald Trump from office, saying none of them "breathed a word about the 25th Amendment when they were lying every day to cover up for the dangerous infirmity of President Joe Biden."

In a Friday press release, Johnson accused congressional Democrats of once again pursuing impeachment and other extraordinary measures against Trump, despite what he described as foreign policy successes, including a ceasefire agreement with Iran following decisive U.S. military action.

"Congressional Democrats have no message, no vision, and no leadership," Johnson said, arguing their actions are driven by "an irrational hatred" of Trump rather than substantive policy disagreements.

He added that instead of working with Republicans on issues such as lowering taxes, improving wages, and securing communities, Democrats are focused on what he called their "favorite failed and pointless pastime: impeaching President Trump" and what he described as Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Johnson's remarks come as House Democrat leadership has taken steps toward considering calls within its caucus to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has authorized a briefing led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., to discuss constitutional options for removing Trump from office, Axios reported Wednesday.

The move reflects growing pressure from rank-and-file Democrats, with more than 80 House members and at least two senators publicly calling for Trump's removal — either through impeachment or by urging Vice President JD Vance and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th.

Axios reported that Democrat leadership had previously resisted such measures but is now facing increasing demands from its base, particularly following Trump's recent rhetoric on Iran.

Some Democrats argue that public sentiment is shifting in favor of more aggressive action, while others privately express skepticism about the viability of such efforts.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 25thamendment; mikejohnson; newsmax

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1 posted on 04/10/2026 9:27:44 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Oh, just like snapping your fingers. I see...... To those calling for this.......🖕


2 posted on 04/10/2026 9:34:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Signalman

We are going to have a civil war. If Trump is able to effect what the voters who put him in office wanted him to do, the leftist, radical, communist Democrats will start a war to o overturn or stop it. They HAVE to be talking about it behind closed doors. This is treason.


3 posted on 04/10/2026 9:34:42 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Signalman

They need to read the actual text of the 25th amendment. It would not remove Trump from office—at most make Vance Acting President (but Trump would be able to defeat that). It isn’t an easy way to remove a President without needing the approval of two-thirds of the senators.


4 posted on 04/10/2026 9:38:19 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Then a large portion of the U.S. will be able to exercise their 2nd amendment rights and clean up the cities once and for all.


5 posted on 04/10/2026 9:38:31 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Signalman

Your not going to change them so start using their tactics against them.


6 posted on 04/10/2026 9:44:26 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: Signalman

These clowns should actually read the 25th Amendment.

But reading laws has always proven a problem for people in Congress.


7 posted on 04/10/2026 9:45:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Signalman

Fun fact: It is actually more difficult to remove a president by the 25th Amendment than it is to remove him by impeachment and conviction.

The 25A requires a 2/3 majority in both Houses of Congress.
Impeachment/Conviction requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate only.


8 posted on 04/10/2026 9:49:28 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Signalman

MSN keeps headlining dementia Trump, then this guy who looks like him shows up on tv and makes them look like fools


9 posted on 04/10/2026 9:55:38 AM PDT by sopo
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

10 posted on 04/10/2026 10:10:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Signalman

I dont want to hear ONE PEEP from the commies about the 25th amendment when they had a rotting corpse “Running the country for 4 damn years. EVERYONE and their mamma knew that Joe Biden was NEVER President, they just locked his sorry old ass in a closet, attached a catheter to his balls and Obama and his crew ran the country into the damn ground..so yeah I dont want to hear ONE peep from them regarding the 25th amendment, for what, a TWEET, yeah Trump tweeted something “bad” but Biden was DEAD, he never ran the country, he just fit the damn suit while he soiled his diaper and talked to dead people so I dont want to hear it from them. Donald Trump could stand on his head, fart for 7 hours straight, and bock like a chicken and he would be more mentally stable than Joe Biden EVER was


11 posted on 04/10/2026 10:11:02 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Signalman
Impeachment did not work, so ...

Of course another impeachment is likely to happen if the Dems retake the House this year.

12 posted on 04/10/2026 10:27:39 AM PDT by Salman (Trump needs to go full Pinochet.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I offer this observation: WokeLeftardazis in a way can’t be hypocrites… as to them hypocrisy is just another tool in their toolbox to advance their agenda of tyranny. Which is their ONLY agenda! They also know the Leftard media will cover up for them. Same is with “truth”… to (misnamed) “progressives” ANYTHING that advances their agenda is “truth”. So Leftazis can say one thing one minute and the EXACT OPPOSITE the next minute and if their agenda is advanced BOTH statements are “true”! Somewhere in the last decade Democrats morphed into DemoKKKrats. To say they’re “Liberals” is nonsense... old style liberals are extinct, crushed by CommieLeft. They still used the label but are now totalitarians... who demand total obedience to whatever “truth” they currently champion, which can flip 180 degrees without notice, or you get “cancelled”. Even longtime (maybe the last true) Liberal Alan Dershowitz once a Hillary supporter now supports Trump. Sen John Fetterman is the last real Democrtat liberal. Thus we know it’s the DemoKKKrats who have gone full fascist not Trump or MAGA.

On Monday, the Democrat hysteria machine was declaring Trump a savage genocidal maniac. On Tuesday after the ceasefire announcement, they was blasting him as a TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”) for not carrying out what the day before they had declared a “war crime”. Does the entire Democrat party run only on slogans and TDS? Are they totally devoid of any policy platform to improve the lives of working Americans, who they claim to champion but actually seem to hold in contempt? What spose?


13 posted on 04/10/2026 10:39:45 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: Vermont Lt
Pelosi floated going the Congressional route during President Trump's first term, but it went nowhere.

For people who haven't read the 25th amendment:

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...

Pelosi wanted to introduce legislation that would define this "other body" that would bypass the Cabinet. It would still have to be gate-kept by the Vice President, so it's going nowhere.

But imagine what might happen if Pelosi were able to define such a body, and have it made up of the, say, publishers of the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the presidents of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Brown?

-PJ

14 posted on 04/10/2026 10:47:18 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Signalman

Insane people who cannot tell a man from a woman calling Trump insane.


15 posted on 04/10/2026 11:04:51 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: rktman

ASA, you must be a Fort Devens graduate!


16 posted on 04/10/2026 11:12:52 AM PDT by MSF BU
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yeah should define the “other party” as her and three other democrat leaders. LOL

Trump isn’t going anywhere. He will lose the midterms (nor a shock) and they will move to impeach him for….pick a reason. Then the senate will kick it away.

Rinse and repeat for the entire remainder of his term.

But, unless is strokes out…he isn’t going anywhere.


17 posted on 04/10/2026 11:53:29 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Why should there be a civil war? In less than 3 years President Trump will be out of office and once again subject to endless, insane lawfare, hounded to imprisonment or the grave. That goes for his supporters, too. Even a fair biographer would likely be harassed and persecuted.
How do law-abiding people take up arms against the law and its enforcers?


18 posted on 04/10/2026 11:56:44 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Signalman

This is what we have to look forward in 2027 if things dont change quick.


19 posted on 04/10/2026 12:25:00 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
We are going to have a civil war.

I'm in my late 60's, and single but I can still shoot. Let's get this shit over with.

20 posted on 04/10/2026 2:55:00 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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