Treasury Secretary Mnuchin involved in discussions about the 25th Amendment
Source: Washington Post
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has been personally involved in discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office, but is highly unlikely to pursue that extraordinary course of action, according to three people aware of the treasury secretary’s remarks. Mnuchin, who has long been one of Trump’s most loyal cabinet secretaries, publicly condemned the rioters for their siege of the U.S. Capitol building but refrained from openly criticizing the president.
In private, however, he has fumed over Trump’s handling of the incident and has been directly critical of the president, according to the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk freely about the private conversations. While Mnuchin is unlikely to pursue the option, the fact that the discussions of the 25th Amendment have reached senior Cabinet officials highlights the extraordinary fallout from the siege of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Mnuchin’s conversations about the subject went beyond just being asked about it by other people, one of the people said. A Treasury Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter. The 25th Amendment gives the vice president, plus a majority of the Cabinet, the ability to remove the president from office if they determine he “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” Many people at the White House do not expect the effort to move forward, and Mnuchin is also not seen as likely to ultimately support such an effort.
The president’s encouragement of the mob that stormed the Capitol has led to several high-profile resignations, including those of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; Education Secretary Betsy DeVos; Mick Mulvaney, the U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland; and Tyler Goodspeed, who was the sole member remaining of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Other senior White House officials have also quit in recent days.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/08/mnuching-25th-amendment/
Full headline: Treasury Secretary Mnuchin involved in discussions about the 25th Amendment, but is unlikely to pursue Trump’s removal
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I had read an AP article earlier this afternoon that had this -
By Leah Hope
Updated 3 hours ago
(snip)
Biden will become president at noon on Jan. 20 regardless of Trump's plans. But Trump's absence represents one final act of defiance of the norms and traditions of Washington that he has flouted for four years.
Historian Douglas Brinkley said that while attending the inauguration "would be a wonderful olive branch to the country if Trump would do it, and it might be his chance at one magnanimous act on his way out of office, he is unable to do that."
"There is symbolic value of having the outgoing president attend the inauguration of incoming president; it's an affirmation of our democratic commitment, an affirmation that we believe in free and fair elections, and that we respect the outcome of those free and fair elections," Howell added.
https://6abc.com/politics/trump-wont-attend-bidens-inauguration;-obama-bush-will/9466809/
There is still this nonsense about him somehow just fooling around, and he will come around and "change" at the end. Anyone believing that is a fool and there are plenty in the media like that.
for that first SOTU and remembering Van Jones and his idiotic statement -
“He became President of the United States in that moment, period,”
https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/politics/van-jones-trump-congress-speech-became-the-president-in-that-moment-cnntv/index.html
THAT is forever burned, indelibly, into my brain, and ESPECIALLY after what happened this past week.
he may have been the ONLY one who "talked about it" and hasn't cut and run like the others yet.
I'm surprised that that Wilbur Ross is still around too... 