Trump calls for modifying 25th Amendment to impeach vice presidents

The 25th Amendment deals with presidential succession and the process for removing a president which requires the support of the vice president and the majority support of the president’s cabinet.

Trump was twice impeached by the US House of Representatives during his term from 2016-2020, but was not removed from office by the Senate. (AP photo)

Former President Donald Trump has called for a change in the 25th Amendment of the Constitution in order to allow the administration to be able to remove a vice president who “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president”.

Trump, while addressing a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin said, “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.”

After the debacle in the presidential debate on June 27, President Joe Biden later on ended his presidential bid and Vice President Kamala Harris was accused by Republican candidate Trump and other Republican allies of covering up President Biden’s mental health decline.

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Though Vice President Harris did not comment on Trump’s remarks, she has always defended Biden’s mental health condition and went on to say that he is fit to govern for the next four years as well.

In a statement to CNN, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris had said, “He (President Biden) has the intelligence, the commitment and the judgment and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president.”

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The 25th Amendment deals with presidential succession and the process for removing a president which requires the support of the vice president and the majority support of the president’s cabinet.

But the 25th Amendment doesn’t necessarily deal with the removal of the vice president from the post.

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According to a CNN report, Trump was twice impeached by the US House of Representatives during his term from 2016-2020, but was not removed from office by the Senate.

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