Despite agenda-driven journalists like Michael Wolff gushing to CBS This Morning that President Trump could be ousted out of office through the 25th Amendment, not everyone in the liberal media is buying it.
ABC’s legal analyst and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams dismissed the latest strategy liberals were arguing as a legal way to get Trump out of office.
On Monday's Good Morning America, Abrams told co-host George Stephanopoulos that the 25th Amendment was nothing but a “liberal pipe dream”:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Of all these questions about the president's mental capacity Dan, and Michael Wolff, the author said yesterday that some of these aides even talk about invoking the 25th Amendment but that's pretty far-fetched.
DAN ABRAMS: Let’s be clear. As a legal matter, the 25th Amendment is a liberal pipe dream. And for two reasons. Number one, the amendment was enacted post-John Kennedy being shot and the fear was this could be a president who is in a coma, what are we going to do? Some are going to say this is the same, okay, as a procedural matter it's harder than impeachment.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Right, you have to get a majority of the cabinet first and then two-thirds--
ABRAMS: First you have to get the vice president and then you have to get the majority of the cabinet. If the president then objects to that you have to get two-thirds of the House and Senate. With impeachment you only need the majority of the House so if the president is going to be kicked out of office based on a constitutional principle, it's going to be impeachment. It's not going to be the 25th Amendment.
Despite this, Wolff and other liberal journalists are still suggesting this is a truly legitimate strategy for getting what they want.
On CBS This Morning, Wolff told co-host Norah O’Donnell that there were White House staffers gossipping that Trump’s actions were suggesting the need to invoke the 25th Amendment:
WOLFF: [T]he people in the White House are like everyone else in the country. What’s going to happen here? We don’t know from day to day. This is for them, as for everyone, an extraordinary experience, and I think that they certainly question what's going to happen here, like everybody else. There are many moments in which the 25th Amendment has come up, the 25th Amendment which gives the cabinet the ability to remove the President. And they don't say --- they don’t say the cabinet is going to remove the president, but they do say things like, “This is a little 25th Amendment-y here.”
That comment was replayed over-and-over again on the cable news shows Monday. Even print publications were trying to hype their newly found theory. Today, faux Republican and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin snarked that the Amendment was now “up” in popularity, while Politico hailed the “liberal pipe dream” as the latest “obsession” in Washington.
