Why is Nancy Pelosi telegraphing her intention to remove Trump from office through the use of the 25th Amendment? Or is she targeting Biden?
WASHINGTON. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Washington Press corps she and her party’s leaders are “going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.” This constitutional provision has within it a clause allowing for the president’s removal from office if he “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” You may recall that back in 2017, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hatched a plot to secretly record President Trump in the Oval Office. Rosenstein thought capturing conversations of the irascible Trump speaking bluntly and unfiltered might sound crazy to professional Washingtonians who speak so smoothly out of both sides of their mouths. Then Rosenstein would present the recordings to members of the president’s cabinet for review. If a majority of them agreed that Trump was mentally unstable and unfit to serve, they could start proceedings to remove him from office. But it’s clear McCabe thought Rosenstein’s idea farfetched. He later told CBS’s “60 Minutes” he had a more plausible backup scheme.
