I gather that Pelosi will, on Friday, take a look at legislation that would have something to do with looking at a President's condition to perform his duties. That's fine. Somebody is doing something.
I don't think we can remove Trump using the 25A. This would require Pence to agree that Trump is bat-shit crazy, along with 8 cabinet heads, all appointed by Trump. Not going to happen. It also requires that the process happen twice.
In the last two days, Trump has been pressuring Barr to indict several of his enemies, and those that were in his cabinet who failed to do his bidding, or just disappointed him.
Barr is the Attorney General of The United States. He has been threatened with some kind of vague consequences if he does not produce arrests and indictments. This is serious business.
It is so unbelievable that it is tempting to think, well, it's just because of the election--it's electioneering--or to dismiss it as the utterings of a diseased mind that we will soon vote out of office. The problem is that he will be in charge until January 20th of next year.
Trump has almost unfettered--no, it's probably unfettered--access to nukes. He can literally start a war in our name, if he just wants to do it. He has plenty of time to completely and utterly destroy our country.
Seriously, we need to impeach him again, immediately. If we can't negotiate a 25A with Pence, then we need to draft a second impeachment effort. We need to do it NOW. The fact that Trump has pursued this theme two days in a row, and is pressuring the AG to do it, is alarming. We really can't wait until we see the Obamas, Clintons, and many Repub pollies that are on the shit list, rounded up and put in jail, to satisfy Trump's bizarre sense of justice. We need to take his Presidential powers away from him. NOW.
It may look bad, this close to the election, and probably won't conclude until after the election, but history will record the odd behavior, raging, and illness of this pRes. We owe it to our country to at least try again to remove this guy from office. Barr is not exactly your Law and Order guy, just a stoolie for Trump, and he might very well decide to do it, even though it would be an illegal order.
Trump's people think that they are immune to retribution, but if such stuff happens, they will be buying themselves a ticket to prison for their lives.
It seems like Nancy is moving in the right direction, and I trust her, but will she move fast enough? It looks to me like she is codifying the exact symptoms and observed behaviors that will lead to some kind of removal of this pRes.
If Pence agreed, and 8 cabinet heads also agreed, then Trump could be removed immediately. All it would take would be letters presented to Nancy and Grassly. Then, Pence would not be President, just acting President, for the election. They would have to do again, but that probably wouldn't be a problem.
Why did Pence turn around? The plot thickens...
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