On Thursday, following the release of the report by Special Counsel Robert Hur, Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott called on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the President from office.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott says it is time to remove President Biden from office using the 25th Amendment after a scathing Department of Justice report described the severity of Joe's mental decline.
The Department of Justice released its long-awaited investigation into Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents Thursday, delivering a damning assessment of the president's 'diminished faculties' and limited memory.
However, despite finding no wrongdoing by Biden, Special Counsel Robert Hur described Biden as 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,' and that 'it would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him.'
The 25th Amendment, which outlines presidential succession, gives the vice president and Cabinet power to remove the commander in chief from office via a majority vote in the event it's determined he or she is no longer fit for office. It has never been invoked in U.S. history.
The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967, so while it has "never been invoked in U.S. history," it was also not in effect for most of that history. The relevant portion of the amendment states:
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
This is the section that Sen. Scott is urging to be used to remove the noticeably-impaired President from office. And with the President's reaction to the report, as documented by Nick Arama, there is ample proof that this is precisely what needs to happen.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott said that it's time to invoke the 25th Amendment against president Joe Biden.
'That does not describe someone who should be the Commander in Chief of our armed forces and the defender of American freedoms,' Scott wrote on X in reaction to the report. 'It’s time for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.'
One could make the argument that it's well past time to invoke the 25th Amendment - or convince President Biden and whoever is pulling his strings to step down, for the good of the country. But then, the good of the country has never been high on Joe Biden's list of priorities.
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On a fateful day in 1974, President Richard Nixon met in the Oval Office with a Congressional delegation led by Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. That delegation informed the President that he was not going to survive the upcoming impeachment vote and that, for the good of the country, he should resign and hand the Presidency over to Vice President Gerald Ford. He did so, for the good of the nation, and in time, the nation forgave him; by the time Nixon died, he was seen as something of an elder statesman -- a flawed one, but even so.
Joe Biden appears to have no such notions. He is now in the position of being more selfish, more defiant, and less deserving of the office of the President than Richard Nixon. This damning report speaks eloquently (something Joe Biden is not capable of) to the President's failing faculties. Biden's response is defiance, but the report remains. Too many people have seen it now, and how it paints a vivid picture of a man who cannot remember the day he became Vice President or the day his son died, but who we are supposed to be comfortable with having the authority to command our armed forces, send our sons and daughters off to war, and to authorize the release of nuclear weapons.
Senator Scott is right; the Cabinet needs to act, to send Joe Biden back to his Delaware basement, and if that means we have to suffer the execrable Kamala Harris in the White House until January 2025, so be it.