"A former Republican senator is calling on lawmakers to use the 25th Amendment to kick President Donald Trump out of office.
“He is sick of mind, impetuous, arrogant, belligerent and dangerous,” Gordon Humphrey, who represented New Hampshire from 1979 to 1990, said in a letter to his state’s members of Congress obtained by Manchester ABC station WMUR.
Humphrey said the president’s “sick and reckless conduct could consume the lives of millions,” and he should be relieved of his duties “at the earliest possible date”
His letter calls on lawmakers to support legislation in the House, HR 1987, which would create a commission to invoke the 25th Amendment and “carry out a medical examination of the President to determine whether the President is mentally or physically unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office.”
Humphrey is already receiving pushback.
Neither of the state’s two House representatives ― Annie Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter, both Democrats ― support the commission out of concern it would set a dangerous precedent, spokespeople said."
Dangerous precedent aside (i.e. the GOP will ensure any future Dem president will have a rectal exam every week and the vice-versa) Trump really does have some classic early mid-stage Alzheimer's disease symptoms. He father died of it also and Trump is the oldest president ever to take office. Regan had clear dementia by term two, anyone who lived through the 80s remembers this.
The disease starts to degrade the brain often 20+ years before and in 20/20 hindsight seeing my own aunt's disease progression, I really think Trump needs an MRI.
In theory I very much support a businessman having a go as president and understand the cherrybomb down the hill's toilet effect many who voted for him want. Fiery rhetoric, all good stuff but not if it is coming from organic brain damage. We need some assurance on this.
My aunt who would not hurt a fly became physically violent (slaps) and would verbally lash out in anger for five years before we suspected dementia. It is a gradual process.
We do not let airline pilots work at his age for safety reasons. Most corporations would expect a CEO to retire by 71. Congress should be making sure that the man is physically fit but we have bi-partisan cowardice on the subject.
“He is sick of mind, impetuous, arrogant, belligerent and dangerous,” Gordon Humphrey, who represented New Hampshire from 1979 to 1990, said in a letter to his state’s members of Congress obtained by Manchester ABC station WMUR.
Humphrey said the president’s “sick and reckless conduct could consume the lives of millions,” and he should be relieved of his duties “at the earliest possible date”
His letter calls on lawmakers to support legislation in the House, HR 1987, which would create a commission to invoke the 25th Amendment and “carry out a medical examination of the President to determine whether the President is mentally or physically unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office.”
Humphrey is already receiving pushback.
Neither of the state’s two House representatives ― Annie Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter, both Democrats ― support the commission out of concern it would set a dangerous precedent, spokespeople said."
Dangerous precedent aside (i.e. the GOP will ensure any future Dem president will have a rectal exam every week and the vice-versa) Trump really does have some classic early mid-stage Alzheimer's disease symptoms. He father died of it also and Trump is the oldest president ever to take office. Regan had clear dementia by term two, anyone who lived through the 80s remembers this.
The disease starts to degrade the brain often 20+ years before and in 20/20 hindsight seeing my own aunt's disease progression, I really think Trump needs an MRI.
In theory I very much support a businessman having a go as president and understand the cherrybomb down the hill's toilet effect many who voted for him want. Fiery rhetoric, all good stuff but not if it is coming from organic brain damage. We need some assurance on this.
My aunt who would not hurt a fly became physically violent (slaps) and would verbally lash out in anger for five years before we suspected dementia. It is a gradual process.
We do not let airline pilots work at his age for safety reasons. Most corporations would expect a CEO to retire by 71. Congress should be making sure that the man is physically fit but we have bi-partisan cowardice on the subject.
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