Donald and the 25th amendment

[Ohiogal]

I'm starting to lean toward not pursuing this angle (insanity) and just holding Donnie accountable for his destruction of America. I'm beginning to think that he's not insane, he's just a big jerk. At the very most, he has a personality disorder.

Anyway, this is a good opinion piece from The Guardian that makes sense to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/14/observer-view-on-donald-trump

[procon]

1. How do you propose to convince a Republican Vice President, and a

Republican cabinet, and the Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress to vote on the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office?

[David__77]

5. people demanded anti-lynching laws when racists held sway

This was beginning in the 1910s. The anti-racists didn’t stop demanding it simply because racists held sway. It’s basic to demand the removal of Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

2. He's both, insane and a jerk. nt

[NotASurfer]

3. The 25th has more than one application

We're focusing on the part about involuntary removal from office. For somebody with Adult Diaper Donnie's attention span, there's a chance he could decide he's just bored - or he needs to create a diversion without resigning.

The 25th also gives a President a voluntary out, by communicating they are or will be unable to discharge the duties of the office.

For as little value as he puts on the office, he might just play that card if he figures impeachment is getting too close. Declare "fake media is taking all my attention to fight", turn the keys over to Pence, instruct the propaganda wing of Faux/Congress to parrot something like "he's not executing the office so you can't impeach", then go with nonstop campaign-tweet-golf for a while without having to deal with advisers and international leaders and acting presidential and other boring stuff he has no interest or capacity for.

(That is a major run-on sentence. I need to self-edit better.)

And he can simply declare he's dealt with the problem and walk back into office if Mueller starts to close the loop.

I can't rule that kind of stunt out, if he decides he just wants to screw with everyone and try to run out the clock on ever being held accountable.

[dalton99a]

4. He is, above all, an evil asshole who appears to be insane

which makes him even more dangerous