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Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment
Lawmakers concerned about President Donald Trump’s mental state summoned Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee to Capitol Hill last month for two days of briefings about his recent behavior. In private meetings with more than a dozen members of Congress held on Dec. 5 and 6, Lee briefed lawmakers — all Democrats except for one Republican senator, whom Lee declined to identify. Her professional warning to Capitol Hill: “He’s going to unravel, and we are seeing the signs.”
In an interview, she pointed to Trump “going back to conspiracy theories, denying things he has admitted before, his being drawn to violent videos.” Lee also warned, “We feel that the rush of tweeting is an indication of his falling apart under stress. Trump is going to get worse and will become uncontainable with the pressures of the presidency.”
Lee, editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” which includes testimonials from 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assessing the president’s level of “dangerousness,” said that she was surprised by the interest in her findings during her two days in Washington. “One senator said that it was the meeting he most looked forward to in 11 years,” Lee recalled. “Their level of concern about the president’s dangerousness was surprisingly high.”
The conversation about Trump’s fitness to serve is ongoing — and gaining steam after Trump’s tweet this week taunting the leader of North Korea with my-nuclear-button-is-bigger-than-yours bravado.“Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” the president wrote online Tuesday night.
The tweet resuscitated the conversation about the president’s mental state and the 25th Amendment, which allows for the removal of the president from office if the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet deem him physically or mentally “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
I don't think the VP or a Cabinet majority will ever be brave enough to take the right steps to save this country. I have NO respect for Republicans.
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Re: Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment
His mental state has become very alarming....
The excerpts in the book portray the president as erratic; easily distracted; uninterested and unsure about the basics of his job.
Jake Tapper said on CNN's "The Lead" on Thursday that "this new book and the new tweet about his big and powerful button" are "renewing talk about the 25th Amendment and lawmakers' fears about President Trump's mental health." He asked: "Is this all below board?"
But Republican Senator Bob Corker has broached the subject several times in recent months. Last October he called the White House "an adult day care center."
Some White House staffers said he constantly repeats stories and then 10 minutes later he repeats them again.
Former presidential adviser and CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said Wolff's reporting reinforce questions about whether Trump is fit for office."I do think we need to have a serious national discussion about this," Gergen said. And "by the way," he added, "I think the Republican party bears some responsibility here."
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The 25th-Amendment, adopted in 1967, deals with removing a president's power if they are considered unable to discharge the powers of office.
Many of the perverts' actions have moved the amendment to the forefront in everyone's mind.
When being interviewed this morning by Savanah Guthrie, Wolff, the book's author, said that he had the "indelible impression" that Trump's staff "came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job".
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