There are just a few days left in President Donald Trump’s term, and following a mob of his supporters storming the US Capitol building, speculative talk of removing Trump from office using the 25th Amendment is everywhere. In this latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains the reason for the amendment — and what it would take for Trump’s Cabinet to actually use it.
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Do you think President Trump will be impeached before inauguration on January 20? –Chris
@Axlerod Horowitz do not make him a martyr!!
Absolutely, vote is tomorrow. 222 democrat votes + GOP votes.
He’ll be impeached tomorrow. Conviction in the Senate is another matter. Need 17 Republicans to flip!
@Sasi With Leader McConnell supporting impeachment, and removal, and 4 others supporting resignation or the 25fth, easily 17 could flip. Many will follow McConnell’s Precedent and vote guilty, and good riddance to Trump.
I remember one time my 4th amendment was violated, I don’t know why or how but I was compensated for it and got a year of therapy too.
🇨🇳 President bans social media
🇺🇸: Social media bans President
Two sides of the same coin. Both oppressive.
Trump should use the Tik Tok now.lol
Canada, like America only with nice people. 😉
Four years too late.
@smilec Z what would Sarah whatserface do if the original was on tik tok? 😅😅
Corrupt people’s must be in prison soon
After four years of absolute shite they’re making a show of standing up to him NOW? I hear lots of barking but so far everybody is still afraid of trump.
Explain what you mean by absolute shite?
And it doesn’t need to be said Biden would have done everything much worse, it’s obvious from when they tried to spread the virus more in the beginning
afraid of his irrational cult
As they should be.
Right. You get no credit for doing what you’re supposed to.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of is for to do nothing.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
That assumes that there are good men that are doing nothing. The ones that are doing nothing are NOT good men. They don’t care about the United States Constitution. They only care about the lies their Dear Leader told them there was a fraudulent election. It’s like saying last year’s Super Bowl was actually won by the SF 49ers and the game was stolen from them. It’s not true. When you lose, you LOSE. End of story. If you’re not man enough to admit it, STFU.
@Gopher Baroque You and your brethren didn’t seem to have that attitude after TRUMP WON in 2016. Funny how that works. Bumpkin.
@Donnie Brookings 🔎Homan Shreds Biden for saying he would Reverse Trump.
Republicans are NOT GOOD MEN!!!
@Mike Young Democrat males are not even actually real men. Limp-Wristed Betas.
Perhaps, the finest parting gift ever to the CLOWN !
we willsend you the place where you came from
Susan Collins says that she thinks that tRump has learned his lesson “again” . “Rolling eyes” ……………………
… because she isnt the target of KLAN mobs so its easy to play dumb and naieve…
Did she really? 😯😯😯
She’s out of her mind.
You sure it wasn’t Roy Blunt?
SUSAN HAS PUT YOU ON A LIST FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.
Please do an episode on how Trump Culture will remain unless he is put in jail and set an example.
Toh yes
https://youtu.be/zFJ2AN_CZH8
oh good
Did escape from the substance abuse clinics!
I have banned friends and family who spew this BS. Each and every one cannot have debate and have become less of what they once were.
This is the most naive comment ive ever read, and it shows you fundamentally don’t understand trump’s base… it’s going to continue to exist as long as we continue to do nothing to support downtrodden middle america. Throwing their leader in jail while continuing not to help them will exacerbate the problem (although he 100% deserves it, my issue is based on your implication that putting him in jail solves the cultural issue).
@William Levine Some large portion of that cultural issue stems directly from the accurate perception of unequal justice; and it affects both sides in terms of grievance. On the one hand, the Trumpets believe the law doesn’t apply to them, and on the other we recognize that the law does not apply to the wealthy. It needs to change and change _demonstrably!_
Lock him up 🔐
We found his level of incompetence – grade school.
It’s what happens when you live for 74 years never being held accountable for your actions.
And that’s offensive to grade schoolers
The person with the nuclear codes has been deemed too dangerous to have a twitter account.
And that is as much as the american people can expect. Screw the GOP.
@newbalance you have been lied to, manipulated, and miss lead by the dems and their media. Watch trumps speech today, all will come to light today.
By CNN which also by the way claimed saddam had weapons of mass distruction
It’s about powerful men who want control of our country, they fight over something that doesn’t belong to either of them. But to the people. President Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in January 20, 2021. We will have a new Administration. 🇺🇸
dream
Impeached twice in the same term is still some ‘achievement’
There is a caveat, the 25th amendment does cover “mental illness”, but does it cover “bat sh#% craziness”? I don’t believe so, he stays.
I really hope that they removed him before January 20th.
But I’m not giving my hopes up.
When the going gets rough the President’s Cabinet gets going (away).
Disaster or is it just people don’t like what he’s done so they are just trying to make sure he will never run again lol this is a big joke
The latter!
This is propaganda, they know they can’t use the 25th or impeachment against trump. Once he signed the insurrection act he is protected from it. Tune to see trumps speech today and you will learn why they hate him, silenced him, and what the media has been hiding from the public.
All the democrat communist elitist scum will be defeated. LONG LIVE AMERICA.