USAToday opinion: Donald Trump's poor mental health is grounds for impeachment

[CousinIT]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/05/31/donald-trump-should-impeached-because-his-bad-mental-health-column/1260781001/

John D. Gartner, David Reiss and Steven Buser, Opinion contributors

Donald Trump should be removed from the office of the president because he is psychologically unfit to uphold his constitutional duties.

Is being unfit grounds to impeach a president? James Madison appears to have thought so when he said, during the debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, that a president could be removed for “incapacity, negligence or perfidy.” Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, has put forward articles of impeachment on those very grounds, saying, “An unfit president can be impeached for those misdeeds that corrupt and harm society.”

Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in essence, publicly implied that Trump is too mentally impaired to function as president. If that’s true, doesn’t she have a constitutional duty to act?

Trump arrived late to his meeting on infrastructure with Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. He did not shake anyone’s hand, he did not sit down, but instead, according to Pelosi, he pounded the table and launched into a diatribe about her comments accusing him of having engaged "in a cover-up" before he stormed out of the room. The entire “meeting” lasted maybe more than three minutes.

“I walked into the room and I told Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi, 'I want to do infrastructure. … But, you know what? You can’t do it under these circumstances,” Trump said in the Rose Garden minutes later, announcing that he will refuse to carry out his legislative duties as president, unless Congress agrees to stop carrying out their duties of oversight. “You probably can’t go down two tracks. You can go down the investigation track and you can go down the investment track.” (“You can’t investigate and legislate simultaneously — it just doesn’t work that way,” he later tweeted.)

Presumably, by definition, Trump is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” — the 25th Amendment standard — if he simply refuses to do his job. Presidents aren’t allowed to go on strike.

[Merlot]

1. That's was political theatre...you'd think USAtoday would be a little smarter.

To trumpft, politics and world wrestling are the same - all theatre.

[Hoyt]

2. Totally agree with that. I don't think we can get him on Obstruction, but there is no question

his actions, comments about foreign nations and longstanding allies, racism, perfidy, etc.


Had to look Perfidy up, but it pretty much describes the Racist-in-Chief:

deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.

synonyms: treachery, duplicity, deceit, perfidiousness, deceitfulness, disloyalty, infidelity, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, betrayal, treason, falseness, falsity, double-dealing, dishonesty, two-facedness, untrustworthiness, breach of trust

[procon]

3. "perfidy" alone should be reason enough. nt