I’m not certain how it started, but somewhere along the line, otherwise intelligent people who are quite capable of independent research started claiming that the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution can be used to remove the President from office.
The nature of the 25A was central to the plot of the Harrison Ford movie Air Force One. Your overview of the four sections of the Amendment is great, and I’m curious what you think President Trump meant by this: "The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me, but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration," Trump said. "As the expression goes, be careful of what you wish for."
If the VP and cabinet know he is incapacitated and cover it up, don’t inform the people, allowing them to subversively run the country in secret... is that a high crime/misdemeanor?
That is, maybe Trump didn’t mean they were going to remove him, but that they weren’t -- is there a duty to declare an incapacitated president as incapacitated? If the highest officials in the land intentionally neglect that duty, is that a crime?
At the time Trump's comment struck me as taunting Biden about his mental decline, which was already starting to show in 2020.
Fully unpacking it will require another article and a lot of speculation. The context of Trump's comment is of course important. The corporate media and chattering classes were talking about the 25th in relation to Trump. I will need to go back and see what exactly they were saying. There was also an effort by a octogenarian alcoholic to change the 'Body' that has to concur with the VP. I'm sure that all has meaning, and that's one of the areas which will ultimately be speculative.
"America is a nation that can be defined in a single word, assafootima uh footyfoot w" --Joe Biden
The nature of the 25A was central to the plot of the Harrison Ford movie Air Force One. Your overview of the four sections of the Amendment is great, and I’m curious what you think President Trump meant by this: "The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me, but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration," Trump said. "As the expression goes, be careful of what you wish for."
If the VP and cabinet know he is incapacitated and cover it up, don’t inform the people, allowing them to subversively run the country in secret... is that a high crime/misdemeanor?
That is, maybe Trump didn’t mean they were going to remove him, but that they weren’t -- is there a duty to declare an incapacitated president as incapacitated? If the highest officials in the land intentionally neglect that duty, is that a crime?
At the time Trump's comment struck me as taunting Biden about his mental decline, which was already starting to show in 2020.
Fully unpacking it will require another article and a lot of speculation. The context of Trump's comment is of course important. The corporate media and chattering classes were talking about the 25th in relation to Trump. I will need to go back and see what exactly they were saying. There was also an effort by a octogenarian alcoholic to change the 'Body' that has to concur with the VP. I'm sure that all has meaning, and that's one of the areas which will ultimately be speculative.
"America is a nation that can be defined in a single word, assafootima uh footyfoot w" --Joe Biden