Ray9
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Calls for removing Donald Trump from the White House with the 25th Amendment are increasingly louder and more ubiquitous. The 25th amendment exists to remove or replace a president unable to conduct the duties of the office through incapacitation, ineptitude, or criminal acts against the United States.
First, let us consider some past modern presidents and how they altered the course of history to the detriment of the American people. Since Baby Boomers comprise the bulk of the oldest living Americans they may remember Dwight D. Eisenhower who expanded our highway system and created NASA but essentially distinguished himself for eight years by playing golf and having heart attacks. By his third or fourth heart attack Eisenhower was so compromised that his Vice President, Richard Nixon, had to carry out most of the duties of the office. Eisenhower’s CIA got the bright idea to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a covert invasion called the Trinidad Plan.
Eisenhower’s administration passed the plan off to his successor, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Kennedy weakened the plan to the point that it was doomed to fail, and it resulted in the Bay of Pigs disaster that not only embarrassed the US but brought about the Cuban Missile Crisis which nearly culminated in a worldwide nuclear war. The 25th Amendment was never discussed; Kennedy was assassinated in all likelihood by the CIA.
Lyndon Johnson presided over the war In Vietnam that killed millions of people on both sides and handed the country over to the communists anyway. The damage done to US society was deep and lasting but no one called for the 25th Amendment.
Jimmy Carter gave the US a national oil crisis in 1979 and hostages were taken in the Iranian Revolution. Carter nearly destroyed the US economy. George Bush the elder and his ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, brought about the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 which led to the Gulf War and set into motion the events that led to the attack on the World Trade Center in NY City In 2001. The attacks came from Saudi Arabia but Bush the younger retaliated against Iraq.
Bill Clinton had and opportunities to take out Osama bin Laden on more than one occasion. His tracks were covered by Sandy Berger who stole documents from the national archives. Three thousand died in NY.
The 25th Amendment for Trump? How about first in time first in line?
First, let us consider some past modern presidents and how they altered the course of history to the detriment of the American people. Since Baby Boomers comprise the bulk of the oldest living Americans they may remember Dwight D. Eisenhower who expanded our highway system and created NASA but essentially distinguished himself for eight years by playing golf and having heart attacks. By his third or fourth heart attack Eisenhower was so compromised that his Vice President, Richard Nixon, had to carry out most of the duties of the office. Eisenhower’s CIA got the bright idea to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a covert invasion called the Trinidad Plan.
Eisenhower’s administration passed the plan off to his successor, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Kennedy weakened the plan to the point that it was doomed to fail, and it resulted in the Bay of Pigs disaster that not only embarrassed the US but brought about the Cuban Missile Crisis which nearly culminated in a worldwide nuclear war. The 25th Amendment was never discussed; Kennedy was assassinated in all likelihood by the CIA.
Lyndon Johnson presided over the war In Vietnam that killed millions of people on both sides and handed the country over to the communists anyway. The damage done to US society was deep and lasting but no one called for the 25th Amendment.
Jimmy Carter gave the US a national oil crisis in 1979 and hostages were taken in the Iranian Revolution. Carter nearly destroyed the US economy. George Bush the elder and his ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, brought about the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 which led to the Gulf War and set into motion the events that led to the attack on the World Trade Center in NY City In 2001. The attacks came from Saudi Arabia but Bush the younger retaliated against Iraq.
Bill Clinton had and opportunities to take out Osama bin Laden on more than one occasion. His tracks were covered by Sandy Berger who stole documents from the national archives. Three thousand died in NY.
The 25th Amendment for Trump? How about first in time first in line?
