Obama Threatened Biden with Removal from Office Under 25th Amendment - Sy Hersh

Sputnik News ^ | 7/27/24

[marshmallow]

Biden announced his intention to drop out of the race July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's nominee.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Former US President Barack Obama threatened Joe Biden with removal from office under the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution if he did not withdraw from the presidential race, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed.

Obama told Biden he had gotten the approval of US Vice President Kamala Harris to invoke the safeguard against presidential incapacity, Hersh said in a blog post on Substack.

The journalist noted that, in accordance with the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the US president may be removed from power in the event he is judged to no longer be able to carry out his duties, with the vice president stepping into the role.

Hersh claimed that by the time Obama called Biden, it was already clear Harris would receive Democratic leaders' approval to run as the party's candidate.

[vivenne]

Well, he is a tool for Obama, but were is Congress, the Republicans, the citizens calling this out? Our country is being run by an un-elected board. Where the “Democracy”?

[Maine Mariner]

two words: Jill Biden

[Widget Jr]

It was up on Hersh's Subtack before Sputnik reported on it.
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[stylin19a]

thanks. i flat out missed it. sorry.

[DMZFrank]

It might be sedition, but to put a forced condition on her not to invoke the 25th amendment sounds like extortion to me.

If there was a need to invoke the 25th amendment, then that rationale alone should have been the motivation for it. When a coercive element is attached to NOT doing it, THAT might convert it to an extortive criminal act.

But again, these people are corrupt DEMONRATs, so why not?