Two Trump Cabinet officials were "ready to support" a DOJ scheme to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump, according to Bloomberg and Fox News, citing closed-door testimony from the FBI's former top lawyer, James Baker - who said that the claim came from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The testimony was delivered last fall to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. Fox News has confirmed portions of the transcript. It provides additional insight into discussions that have returned to the spotlight in Washington as fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe revisits the matter during interviews promoting his forthcoming book. -Fox News
While Baker did not identify the two Cabinet officials, he says that McCabe and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page approached him to relay their conversations with Rosenstein, including their discussions of the 25th Amendment scheme.
"I was being told by some combination of Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, that, in a conversation with the Deputy Attorney General, he had stated that he -- this was what was related to me -- that he had at least two members of the president’s Cabinet who were ready to support, I guess you would call it, an action under the 25th Amendment," Baker told the Congressional committees.
The 25th Amendment allows for the removal of a sitting president from office through various mechanisms - including the majority of a president's Cabinet agreeing that the commander-in-chief is incapable of performing his duties.
Rosenstein - who is slated to leave the Justice Department in the near future, has denied the claims.
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9 comments:
McCabe needs to be thinking of future decorations for his prison cell.
Let me guess, sessions and Chow?
Treason = hanging. This is why the second amendment shall not be infringed.
Come on James Baker, name names so the public will know who the traitors & backstabbers are.
He can't even form coherent sentences.
Have you ever listened to the man speak?
All gobbledygook, all the time. Tenses all out of place, and words all out of order.
Contradicts himself all the time, and couldn't tell the whole truth about anything even if his life depended on it.
Face, not fit to be in that office. Evoke the 25th.
Those Congress members would be McCain and Elizabeth Warden.
Spot on. But I'd say COMEY and sessions.
Yes 1:01, I listen to him speak every chance I get. Talks like the blue collar people that elected him. He says what's on his mind, politically correct or not. Make America Great Again President Trump
Add these two to the Jail group above !!!!
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