Posted on 05/19/2017 10:29:33 AM PDT by drewh
Bill Kristol and Ross Douthat have respectively gone public with their scheming to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Douthat wrote a New York Times column published Tuesday night that called for Trump to be removed from office via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution
Kristol wrote on Twitter Tuesday that his and his allies goal is to “dispose of Trump” and “Trumpism” but that it will take time, “Several of you have asked, What IS path forward? Well, we’re working on it. Disposing of Trump & overcoming Trumpism can’t be done in a day.”
Kristol was writing about the path forward for Republicans in wake of latest onslaught against Trump, “GOP members & donors are in grip of quiet desperation. Task of anti-Trump Republicans isn’t to say I told you so, but chart path forward.”
Douthat teased the genesis of his column with comments on Twitter about Trump and fired FBI DIrector James Comey, “I think the combination of saying this to Comey and then *firing* Comey makes a stronger 25th Amendment case than impeachment case…It suggests a man who literally cannot think through the howlingly obvious consequences of his actions.”
Excerpt from Douthat’s column in which he argues Trump has a ‘child’s mind’ and cannot be held legally accountable for his actions:
“ …There is, as my colleague David Brooks wrote Tuesday, a basic childishness to the man who now occupies the presidency. That is the simplest way of understanding what has come tumbling into light in the last few days: The presidency now has kinglike qualities, and we have a child upon the throne.
It is a child who blurts out classified information in order to impress distinguished visitors. It is a child who asks the head of the F.B.I. why the rules cannot be suspended for his friend and ally. It is a child who does not understand the obvious consequences of his more vindictive actions — like firing the very same man whom you had asked to potentially obstruct justice on your say-so.
A child cannot be president. I love my children; they cannot have the nuclear codes.
But a child also cannot really commit “high crimes and misdemeanors” in any usual meaning of the term. There will be more talk of impeachment now, more talk of a special prosecutor for the Russia business; well and good. But ultimately I do not believe that our president sufficiently understands the nature of the office that he holds, the nature of the legal constraints that are supposed to bind him, perhaps even the nature of normal human interactions, to be guilty of obstruction of justice in the Nixonian or even Clintonian sense of the phrase. I do not believe he is really capable of the behind-the-scenes conspiring that the darker Russia theories envision. And it is hard to betray an oath of office whose obligations you evince no sign of really understanding or respecting.
Which is not an argument for allowing him to occupy that office. It is an argument, instead, for using a constitutional mechanism more appropriate to this strange situation than impeachment: the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which allows for the removal of the president if the vice president and a majority of the cabinet informs the Congress that he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and (should the president contest his own removal) a two-thirds vote by Congress confirms the cabinet’s judgment…
End excerpt, complete article at link.
The Establishment sharks smell blood in the water and may be moving in to try take Trump out.
Photos of the modern....Three stooges of the Beltway.
Kristol proved himself to be a Never Trumper during the election. I boycotted Weekly Standard since then. He didn’t change his tune after Trump became the Republican nominee, didn’t change it even after he won the Presidency. in fact, he was one of the few “Republicans” who said he’d vote for Hillary instead of Trump. Why does he still call himself a Republican again?
He’s been a Cheap Labor Express mouthpiece for years.
Anything to get amnesty and steal the country from us.
Of course now is much different than then, but they’ve been trying to do that for almost 2 years.
Those three have been working against the rule of law and the citizens and for illegal aliens and amnesty for a long time, they are very sly.
Then he’s a TRAITOROUS asshole..................
What is the “crime” that Trump is supposed to be guilty of? What is the measure of its magnitude in the scheme of things?
And how do they propose to carry out any effort at impeachment? No President has yet been removed from office by impeachment, not even Bill Clinton.
If Bill Kristol ran for President he wouldn’t get a thousand votes outside of Washington DC and the 5 wealthiest ZIP codes in the country that surround DC.
Guess he’s a darling among the ‘oh so corrupt’ ones who specialize in ripping off the American people to keep their lavish life styles going - ON OUR DIME.
Yes, Capital City is filled with blowhards like Kristol... he has no idea how hated he is in flyover...or what a pompous fool he looks like...
Trump's threatening to rid D.C. of corruption. That scares the heck out of ALL politicians and career "civil servants" in both parties.
This is a ridiculous argument. The 25th Amendment was put in place so that if there was a temporary physical problem with the president, who PHYSICALLY could not execute the powers of the presidency, the Vice-President could be the acting president. This happened, I believe, when Reagan was shot and G.H.W. Bush temporarily exercised the powers of the presidency during Reagan’s recovery.
More bile bubbling up in the swamp.
People like Kristol should all choke on a carrot and choke to death. He and his kind take up too much precious air.
If they smile, they’re RINO.
Warmonger Bill Kristol should be hanging from a Georgetown lamp post.
I was a reluctant Trump supporter and voted against Hillary more than I affirmatively voted for Trump. But after articles like this and the deranged behavior of the deep hatred for Trump for trying to shake up the system, I support him now more than ever. I don’t think I’m alone in this and these efforts, I believe, will will ultimately backfire on them.
Do they both work for the same Mexican/Arab billionaire?
Ain’t gonna happen. These people are a whistlen Dixie. lol
These dim bulbs are going to start something that they can’t stop. Do not poke the sleeping giant. It annoys him.
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