Democrats settled on their latest anti-Trump hoax to drive the President from office.
But Democrats got some bad news.
And that’s because Jen Psaki told her own party something about the 25th Amendment that left them in disbelief.
As West Wing Daily reports:
Appearing on Stephen A. Smith’s podcast, Psaki threw cold water on the growing push among Congressional Democrats to oust President Trump from office using the 25th Amendment.
“I think there are times, I think a lot of people on — and I can’t speak for everybody on the left, I don’t agree with everything everybody says on the left either — you know, sometimes it’s like not constructive,” Psaki stated. “I mean, you’ve talked about the 25th Amendment. I have no issue with people saying they’re for invoking the 25th Amendment, but it’s not going to happen. So, it’s like, why are we spending so much time, you know?”
Psaki said that she shared the left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, but that Democrats were taking their Trump hate too far.
“I’m outraged by a lot of it, but I don’t think screaming about every single thing is the most constructive thing,” Psaki added.
Psaki also warned Democrats that they can’t use this issue as a litmus test in the November election.
“If you want to win, you have to accept sometimes that there may be people who are part of your party or you’re going.” Psaki continued. “And I think sometimes there can be a little litmus-testy feeling about like, who’s allowed to be a Democrat or who can consider themselves progressive.”
Psaki’s comments come as 50 House Democrats signed on to Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin’s bill to create a 25th Amendment Commission to remove Trump from office.
Axios’s Andrew Solender reported that the details on the bill included:
The body would have two members, each appointed by the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, the House Speaker, and the House Minority Leader.
It would include four former “high-ranking executive branch officials” — specifically vice presidents, secretaries of state, defense and treasury, attorneys general, and surgeons general — appointed by Democrats and another four appointed by Republicans.
Those 16 commissioners would then vote to appoint another person — either another high-ranking former official or a physician — to serve as chair.
This isn’t how the 25th Amendment works at all.
The 25th Amendment isn’t “one weird trick” the opposing party can deploy to remove the President from office.
Only the Vice President can initiate it by declaring the President unfit for office.
A majority of the cabinet must then agree.
But if the President says he is fit for office, then he remains in power.
