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Thursday, September 6th, 2018

The Incapacitated President

Author:     Jamelle Bouie
Source:     Slate
Publication Date:     SEPT 05, 20185:34 PM
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Stephan:   In my view, we are at a stage of acute crisis in the United States, largely because the Republican Party has simply abandoned any sense of ethics, any commitment to put the interests of the country above party or personal interest. It all comes down to the voters in November. That's you, and the people you know.

Donald Trump

Ratified in 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution allows the vice president and a majority of sitting Cabinet secretaries to remove the president if they decide he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” Crafted in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s been cited recently in response to President Donald Trump and mounting evidence that he’s not equipped to handle the office of the presidency. Excerpts from a new book on the Trump administration don’t just bolster that view; they suggest a White House where officials have all but invoked an informal version of that provision, stymieing presidential decision making and cutting Trump out of the policymaking and other affairs of state. The White House may be divided by competing loyalties and self-interest, but it is united in its belief that the president cannot be allowed to act unencumbered, lest he plunge the federal government—and the United States—into chaos.

In Fear: Trump in the White House, veteran reporter Bob Woodward portrays an administration […]

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1 Comment

  1. will on Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 4:04 am

    Will the latest NYT editorial from an unknown insider finally push mad king donald over the edge? I mean really over the edge into resignation. Of course then we have to deal with pence but imagine no more tweet storms.