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Pelosi suggests Trump family members stage 'intervention' for 'good of nation'

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Senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi has questioned Donald Trump’s fitness to remain in office and suggested a family or staff
Associated Press Reporters
May 23 2019 9:26 PM
Senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi has questioned Donald Trump’s fitness to remain in office and suggested a family or staff „intervention“ for the good of the nation.
The House Speaker’s call came after the President’s dramatic walk-out from a White House meeting with Democrats.
However, Mr Trump’s spokeswoman said it is the Democrats who are „insane“ if they think he should work on legislation with them when they accuse him of engaging in a cover-up in the Trump-Russia election investigation.
Both the Republican president and Democratic leaders dug in a day after Mr Trump stalked out of the Cabinet Room demanding an end to all congressional probes before he would work with Congress on crumbling US infrastructure and other matters.
By Thursday as Congress prepared to recess for the Memorial Day break, both sides were questioning each other’s stability, with the President insisting on Twitter that he was calm when he left the White House meeting after just three minutes.
Ms Pelosi said Mr Trump has established a pattern of unpredictability, and at one point she even joked about the 25th Amendment, the Constitution’s provision laying out the procedure for replacing a president.
„I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country,“ Ms Pelosi said at her weekly news conference, adding that she prays for him and the nation.
„Maybe he wants to take a leave of absence,“ she said. Asked whether she is concerned about Mr Trump’s well-being, she replied: „I am.

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