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DetlefK

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Wed Nov 30, 2016, 10:07 AM Nov 2016

Keith Olbermann: The GOP and Democrats could impeach Trump with the Constitution's crazy-man-clause.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/keith-olbermann-comes-up-with-a-surprisingly-easy-little-known-totally-constitutional-plan-to-fire-president-trump/

"The Constitution was surprisingly vague on what happens if a president dies or is incapacitated in office," Olbermann explained in his GQ show The Resistance, turning to The 25th Amendment, Section Four."
"[It was] written nearly 52 years ago, more with Woodrow Wilson in mind, and yet it might as well have been named for Donald John Trump," the host remarked.

This part details the conditions for "instant impeachment," according tp Olberman.

In roughly three weeks, a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate and written agreement from the vice president and the President's cabinet "results in the president remaining in office with the title but without the power," Oberman explained

"So it's a crazy-man clause, right? In the case of Trump, it presumes he behaves as president as he is behaving as president-elect," he offered, pointing to the mounting evidence that Trump will be "unable to discharge his duties," as the Consitution states.

"For my money, he's nuts - couldn't pass a sanity test, open book," Olbermann continued. "But of course, Section Four of the 25th Amendment here does not say 'nuts' - or impaired, or erratic or unbalanced or unhealthy or bipolar or narcissist or sociopath or psychopath. It only says 'that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
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