1-5-2022
Jan. 6 committee has info on Trump aides discussing
use of 25th Amendment to remove him
Jan. 6 committee has info on Trump aides
discussing use of 25th Amendment to remove him.
In its letter requesting Fox News host Sean Hannity's testimony on Tuesday, the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection referenced efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove former president Donald Trump from office.
According to the letter, Hannity sent chief of staff Mark Meadows a text message on Jan. 6
"relating to a potential effort by members of President Trump’s cabinet to remove him from office under
the 25th Amendment."
"As you may recall, Secretaries DeVos and Chao both resigned following the President’s conduct on January 6th, as did members of the President’s White House staff," the committee wrote to Hannity.
"We would like to question you regarding any conversations you had with Mr. Meadows or others about any effort to remove the President under the 25th Amendment."
Jamie Gangel addressed the letter's references to
the 25th Amendment on Tuesday night.
"It appears the committee has information about conversations that were going on at the highest level about the 25th Amendment. And just to remind our audience ...
we heard reporting that maybe some people in
the cabinet thought Trump should be removed from office.
The fact that the committee may have information about that
will also speak, once again,
to Trump's state of mind."
((((( the Vice President and the majority of the Cabinet can invoke the 25th Amendment to suspend the President from office if they deem the President
is unable to serve.
The 25th Amendment is to be
used when the President “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
The President is elected to serve the American people. An invocation of the 25th Amendment is a constitutionally-prescribed safeguard to hold our nation’s highest elected officials accountable in the gravest of situations.
President Trump lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote in a decisive and repeatedly-verified election in which the American electorate, particularly marginalized, young voters, overcame barrier after barrier to use the most powerful nonviolent instrument to create change and breakdown injustice— the vote. The President, however, refused to accept that millions of Americans, led by young voters, elected President-Elect Joe Biden by overwhelming margins.
Pro-Trump supporters gathered on the National Mall on January 6, the day Congress was to certify President-Elect Biden’s victory. Immediately following a speech by the President in which he encouraged his supporters to make their opposition to the certification heard, a violent mob broke into the U.S. Capitol.
This invasion forced lockdowns and evacuations of Congress, overran and vandalized the Capitol building, and temporarily halted the certification of the Electoral College votes. As of the writing of this explainer six people, including two Capitol Police officers, died as a result of the attack and several remain hospitalized. )))
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