The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he is unfit for the job, arguing that the US constitution’s 25th amendment addressing involuntary removal from office was “written with Donald Trump in mind”.
Brennan, who served as head of the spy agency during Barack Obama’s presidency, told MS Now on Saturday that Trump’s recent volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civilization and the danger he posed to so many lives merited his removal from the Oval Office.
“This person is clearly unhinged,” he said. “I think the 25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind.”
Brennan added that Trump was too much of a liability to be allowed to continue to be commander in chief. He had immense firepower at his disposal, including the US nuclear arsenal.
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Fucking useless.
The only thing going here is that, as the tin foil hat people say, there is no such thing as “ex-CIA”.
Well John, your organization was once very involved in regime change. Perhaps this time you can get it right?
Seriously, make a few calls to some old work friends. He doesn’t have to be removed gently
He doesn’t have to be removed gently
At all
The guys that make things that spin are pretty good at removing red stains by now.
How about orange stains?
I mean… I think that’s supposed to be implied in the subtext. The 25th was ratified in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. When former CIA spooks start talking 25 it feels very different from when the useless cable news pundits bring it up.
Per the 25th:
Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue [of the presidents inability to govern] … determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
It’s easier to impeach him rather then hit him with the 25th, impeachment doesn’t take his cabinet and 2/3 of the House and Senate to do it. It just takes a majority of the house and 2/3 of the Senate. Considering that didn’t work the previous couple times, I doubt something that adds an extra layer along with a more difficult vote would either.
Maybe one could argue something like “They’re waiting until after the two year mark so Vance can get the benefits of being the incumbent while also getting two terms” but c’mon, Vance is a charisma black hole. No shot that’s the plan. IMO until the outcry drops his approval to like, sub 20, R’s aren’t going anywhere near getting rid of Trump, and even then I have my doubts.
Yeah the 25th is more for “the president had a stroke, but the administration is working well”, impeachment is for “the president is evil and insane but maintains support with his die hards”. Impeachment requires crimes or behaviors unbefitting the office, it requires you actually do something wrong. The 25th is far more of a way to remove a president without saying they did anything wrong, it would suck to get it, but it isn’t necessarily a shameful thing.
John Brennan served as Obama’s CIA Director for four years. During that time - I’ve been told - foreign governments infiltrated our media and party establishment and legislature, corrupted our democratic process, and handed a known agent of a foreign government the position of Chief Executive.
This known agent was a co-conspirator of another well-known blackmailer and professional pedophile, serving as an agent of a foreign intelligence service within the United States for over four decades.
The CIA response to this infiltration was to… do nothing.
Meanwhile, agents within the CIA have manufactured consent for wars against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea for as long as our current president has been a known fence for the Russian mob. They have collaborated with the known blackmailer/pedophile for just as long. And - upon taking office - they faithfully continued to fulfill their duty as agents of a corrupt and despotic president, including through illegal arrests, extraditions, torture, arms sales, drug trafficking, and sabotage.
Why the fuck does the CIA still exist again?
The CIA exists to operate the honeypots.
To serve and protect pedophiles
People talk about this like it’s just something you can do so easily, pretty sure the requirements require the Vice President and like most of Congress to all turn on Trump and since we all know they’ll sell their entire families down the river for Trump, we can also assume they’ll die before invoking the 25th Amendment.
There’s another amendment written with people like Trump in mind too, but since that one involves bloodshed people really don’t want to go for it. Neither do I, frankly, not if there is any other way. Think we may be running out of road on other options though. I can only hope things are resolved before it becomes necessary. Trump is a tyrant, however and he acts as though he is a king. Founding fathers were pretty clear on what to do about those. Hopefully more civil methodology will prevail.
Just stop. Stop with the false hope. He’s in power for life, whether that’s 10 weeks or 10 years. Too many powerful people are benefitting.
Also from the Declaration:
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
So was the 2nd Amendment.
34 felonies and 25 amendments.
We don’t need Trump removed and replaced with another right wing Luddite. The whole diseased Republican party and everything they currently stand for needs to be done away with. The rot is not one man, The rot goes all the way to the core. Trump just gave the others the permission and validation to more openly be as vile as they previously were in private.
The Democratic party are no saints, but there is at least a chance of turning them around with the right people, policies, and regulations.
The Republican party, and anyone openly and proudly that still calls themselves among their members, is a lost cause.
They won’t 25th him until he pardons them. If he gets so senile or believes he’s so sick that he pardons Vance and enough of them early, OR if Vance agrees to pardon everyone as president they will absolutely 25th him
you can take the the croc out of the swamp…
Remember everyone, anyone talking about the 25th amendment is a psyop.
The barrier is higher than senate impeachment and removal. If he can’t be impeached than 25th amendment is an even bigger waste of time.
Keep fucking doing it, coward.
Impeachment would lead to removal, even if Trump got 25th he could just write a letter saying he is good and be back to business as usual the next day.
Let him try, then keep pressing him like a fucking panini.
Don’t be a wuss about it.
But why? It’s harder, just impeach and remove his ass and call it a day. 25th amendment is a distraction from the best tool available, impeachment.
Because it worked so well the first two times?
Because they didnt get 2/3 in the Senate to remove him. But if they go for the 25th they need the 2/3 anyways.
So it still won’t work?
