Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he briefly talked about using the 25th Amendment to remove former President Trump from power during a discussion with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the Jan. 6 riot, The Hill reported.
Mnuchin, then-Treasury Secretary, said he did not seriously consider using the measure to remove Trump from office.
“It came up very briefly in our conversation,” Mnuchin told the Jan. 6 committee in his deposition to the Jan. 6 panel, released on Tuesday. “We both believed that the best outcome was a normal transition of power, which was working, and neither one of us contemplated in any serious format the 25th Amendment.”
“The only research I did out of curiosity was I googled it,” Munchin said, adding, “I remember my general counsel asking me if we wanted him to do extensive research on it. I said, no, not at this point.”
Why is no one concerned about the open borders with unvetted aliens pouring in, some with drugs?
Earlier this year, audio of GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy discussing the 25th Amendment days after the January 6 Capitol protest leaked to two New York Times reporters. It’s old news. We reported this in May of this year.
On January 10, 2021, Kevin McCarthy told Liz Cheney and other House Republicans that he would tell Trump to resign.
Another audio of McCarthy discussing the 25th Amendment with House Republicans has been leaked to the media.
“What the president did was atrocious and totally wrong. From the standpoint, we’re 12 days away – I mean the one point I’d make with Biden – if you have an impeachment and you’re stuck sitting in the senate and he needs cabinet members, he’s got Secretary of Defense, he’s got a lot of things he’s got to have moving….” McCarthy said.
McCarthy also said he wanted to reach out to Biden and have him meet with Trump. These Republicans are always on the defensive. The riot was unacceptable, but why have these politicians sat back in silence while Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioted for months?
Kevin McCarthy also wanted to silence conservative members of Congress.
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I’m left thinking; was there anyone in Trump’s administration that Wasn’t a back-stabber. I’ve come to the conclusion that our governments, from top to bottom are nothing but criminal enterprises. The vast majority of budgets are nothing more than money-laundering operations. The “ear marks” are simply those which are out in the open. Others are much more subtle and unseen.
McCarthy’s support of the removal of Trump was more explicit. Tuesday is the day to elect a speaker. My hunch is January 3rd ends without a speaker elected, with McCarthy blocking legislative progress. Scalise is a bad choice too. Rodgers is a 3rd possibility, but also a Ryan insider. The party is quiet. They are not putting out a winnable candidate.
They could put Trump up for Speaker. That would draw a line in the sand. Anyone who doesn’t vote for Trump would pretty much end their political career. It could also split the Party. There would the 10% RINO Party (the American Chinese Communist Party) and the 90% America First Republican Party. I had been a Libertarian for over 30 years. President Trump bought me back to the Republican Party. He drew a lot of Independents back to the Republican Party. The RINO block did all they could to destroy the Red Wave, including using their PAC Money to support Democrats.
And to think, they wanted Pompeo to run for president. He’s just another Traitor. Don’t like him, can’t trust him!
I recently learned that Pompeo fought hard to block release of information relating to the CIA assisting in framing Trump as a Russian agent. That makes him a participant in the coup.
The 25th Amendment isn’t for Donald Trump, it’s for someone like Joe Biden!
These idiots ALL have grave cognition issues…no wonder the “fraud”/his handlers ARE achieving their goals…to destroy the Republic…