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Who decides when a transfer of power occurs? What if the President can't do the job due to illness, but doesn't want to let go of the power?
Do his doctors say, welp, he's down for the count? Do they have to wait for some unidentified marker before someone steps up and says, time to punt?
What might we be looking for? Chief Justice to swear Pence in? Does it have to be at the bedside, or can they just get together? Who would need to be a witness?
I am not convinced that Trump is truly ill like that, but if he is, he's toast. I think that we have no one running the country right now. It isn't that I think that Pence is a solution, but if he also gets it, we will have President Pelosi. While both are testing negative at present, who was it that was recently in contact with Trump, and who is most likely to test positive next? I sure like the sound of President Pelosi.
JI7
(89,289 posts)brewens
(13,671 posts)with flu symptoms, I'd usually be awake frequently and on my laptop. Even just miserable in bed. Really bad when it's the bad chills where I just want to stay burrowed under the covers probably not. Usually that doesn't last very long.
If we don't see some authentic Trump tweet activity, he's not doing well.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Captain Zero
(6,868 posts)First, the 25th was written when you could still get some consensus between the parties, and when one party, the one in power, wasn't filled with narcissists and total power mongers who thought that raw power was feasible in establishing one party minority government. Any move to use the 25th for any extended time period will also be fought each step of the way by the family members, and other criminals (Barr is one) infecting this white house.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)the more stay irresponsible the worse the outcome for them with all of this. they can;t blame hillary or obama or biden