Tag Archives: 25th Amendment

White House To Exploit Andrew McCabe’s New Book

Axios reports: White House officials and sources close to President Trump are treating Andrew McCabe’s book as an opportunity. These people plan to keep promoting bits from “The Threat,” which has rocketed past Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” to #1 on Amazon’s best-sellers list, that support their “deep state” narrative. They also plan to argue that the rest of the former FBI …

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Alan Dershowitz On Fox: It’s Unconstitutional To Use Constitution To Remove Trump From Office [VIDEO]

Law & Crime reports: President Donald Trump was quite happy with what Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz had to say when he appeared on Tucker Carlson‘s show Thursday night. Soon after Carlson’s show aired on Fox News, the president tweeted out this quote from Dershowitz that dealt with the allegation that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered getting Trump’s …

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White House Blasts “Disgraced Liar” Andrew McCabe

“Andrew McCabe was fired in total disgrace from the FBI because he lied to investigators on multiple occasions, including under oath. His selfish and destructive agenda drove him to open a completely baseless investigation into the President. His actions were so shameful that he was referred to federal prosecutors. Andrew McCabe has no credibility and is an embarrassment to the …

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Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s Coming Tell-All: “Every Day Brings A New Low in Trump’s White House”

The Atlantic has published an excerpt from The Threat, the new book from former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe: People do not appreciate how far we have fallen from normal standards of presidential accountability. Today we have a president who is willing not only to comment prejudicially on criminal prosecutions but to comment on ones that potentially affect him. He …

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Trump Predictably Lashes Out At Former FBI Director

The Washington Examiner reports: President Trump tore into Andrew McCabe on Thursday as the fired FBI deputy director embarks on a media tour for his new memoir in which he said he ordered an obstruction of justice investigation into the commander in chief. In a pair of tweets, Trump accused McCabe of being part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to take …

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BOMBSHELL: Former FBI Acting Director Says DOJ Held Meetings On Removing Trump Via 25th Amendment

CBS News reports: Soon after speaking to President Trump about the firing of his boss James Comey, Andrew McCabe, who became the bureau’s acting director, began obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president and his ties to Russia. In his first television interview since his own firing, McCabe tells 60 Minutes‘ Scott Pelley he wanted those inquiries to …

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New York Times Defends Bombshell Rosenstein Report

The Hill reports: The New York Times on Saturday defended its bombshell report on Friday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording conversations with President Trump last year and proposed the possibility of administration officials invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. The Times’s deputy managing editor Matt Purdy wrote in a statement Saturday that …

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DOJ Source Claims Rod Rosenstein Was Joking

NBC News reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was joking when he discussed wearing a wire to secretly record President Donald Trump and does not believe Trump should be removed from office through the use of procedures outlined in the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, according to Justice Department officials who requested anonymity to discuss the conversation. In a May, 16, 2017 …

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Rosenstein Denies NYT’s “25th Amendment” Story

The Associated Press reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is denying a report in The New York Times that he suggested last year he secretly record President Donald Trump in the White House to expose chaos in the administration. Rosenstein says the story is “inaccurate and factually incorrect.” The report also says Rosenstein floated the idea of trying to remove …

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REPORT: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Taping Trump, Discussed Invoking The 25th Amendment

The New York Times reports: The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit. Mr. Rosenstein made these suggestions in the spring …

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Omarosa: White House Aides Used Special Hashtag In Text Messages To Refer To 25th Amendment [VIDEO]

USA Today reports: Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday that she and others used #TFA in text messages, a reference to the 25th Amendment, when President Donald Trump did something “insane” or “so crazy.” The one-time “Apprentice” star, told MSNBC in an interview that she used the hashtag in messages with family, “staffers” and people working in …

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Pence: I Never Discussed Invoking The 25th

Politico reports: Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday denied participating in any conversation about invoking the 25th Amendment in a bid to oust President Donald Trump. “No. Never,” Pence told Margaret Brennan of CBS News in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on “Face the Nation.” “And why would we be, Margaret?” the vice president added. “I mean, the truth …

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls For Invoking The 25th

CNN reports: “If senior administration officials think the President of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren today told CNN. “The Constitution provides for a procedure whenever the Vice President and senior officials think the President can’t do his job. It does not provide that senior officials …

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REPORT: Steve Bannon Gave Trump 30% Chance Of Full Term, Warned Of Removal Via The 25th Amendment

Vanity Fair reports: At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now it’s clear that Bob Corker’s remarkable New York Times interview—in which the Republican senator described the White House as “adult day care” and warned Trump could start World War III—was an inflection point in the Trump presidency. It brought into the open what …

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Trump: Mine Is The Best Presidency Ever

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday said that “few, if any,” other administration had been as productive in its first seven months as the Trump administration, citing the White House’s progress on job growth and other non-legislative achievements. His tweet came just minutes after he criticized Senate Republicans for not passing more bills, calling on them to get rid …

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Roger Stone: Any Member Of Congress Who Votes For Impeachment Is “Endangering Their Own Life” [VIDEO]

In an interview with TMZ today, Roger Stone predicted that any member of Congress who votes to impeach Trump will be putting their life in danger. Law Newz recaps: First, Stone criticized those who are hoping for Trump’s removal. “The people who are calling for impeachment are the people who didn’t vote for him,” he said. “Sorry, he whipped your …

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Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway: It’s Way Over The Line For Clapper To Say Trump Is Unfit [VIDEO]

Fox News reports: White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway slammed former national intelligence director James Clapper on Thursday for what she called his “absurd analysis” on President Trump’s fitness for office. Clapper was one of numerous CNN pundits who tore into the president after his late-night rally speech in Phoenix on Tuesday. The Obama-era intel boss called the event “scary and …

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Trump Lashes Out At “Liar” James Clapper

Here’s what Hair Furor is pissed about: Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reiterated his concern about President Donald Trump’s ability to effectively lead the country on Wednesday night. “What caused concern is this … Jekyll-Hyde business where he’ll make a scripted teleprompter speech, which is good, and then turn around and negate it by sort of, unbridled, unleashed, …

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James Clapper: I Question Trump’s Mental Fitness

The Hill reports: The former Director of National Intelligence blasted President Trump’s speech during an Arizona rally late Tuesday and raised questions about Trump’s fitness for office. “I don’t know when I’ve listened and watched something like this from a president that I found more disturbing,” James Clapper said during a interview on CNN. “Having some understanding of the levers …

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Adam Schiff: It’s Premature To Talk About Removing Trump For Being Mentally Incapacitated [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that he sees “some serious issues” with President Trump’s capabilities that aren’t likely to get better but that it’s premature to consider invoking a constitutional provision to force him from office. “I certainly think that there’s an issue with the president’s capability. There’s some attribute of his character that …

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