Donald Trump on Saturday floated changing the 25th Amendment to allow Congress to impeach a vice president for covering up a president’s incapacity less than two months after President Joe Biden exited the 2024 contest amid concerns about his age and acuity.
“I will support modifying the 25th Amendment to make clear that if a vice president lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States — if you do that with a cover-up of the president of the United States, it’s grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, because that’s what they did,” the former president said during a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
Ok. But they can already impeach the Vice President for Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, which they can define pretty much any way they want to. This has nothing to do with modifying the 25th Amendment. Who put that cockamamie idea in his head?
Furthermore, isn’t he always screaming about how the Democrats staged a “coup” to illegitimately remove Biden from the ticket? Now they were covering for him? What?
We all know what point he was making. But I’d say that it was pretty clear Mike Pence and his whole cabinet were the ones who covered up for Trump’s incapacity when he lost his mind after the 2020 election. They knew he’d gone over the edge and they did nothing to stop him. Even after January 6th when Pompeo and Mnuchin gathered a few others to have the discussion they didn’t move to do it.
If I were Trump, I’d be a little bit worried about Vance in this scenario. He’s only been MAGA for about five minutes. He strikes me as the type to overthrow the king in a heartbeat if the opportunity arose.