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GOP lawmaker floated possibility of removing Trump via 25th amendment: Book

Tuesday, 03 May 2022 6:00 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 03 May 2022 6:00 PM ]

This picture shows US Republican Party House Representatives from Washington Jaime Herrera Beutler (left) and Dan Newhouse.

A new book has revealed that Republican leaders had discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove then-President Donald Trump following the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill.

In the new book released on Tuesday titled This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns report on how the Republicans were in an impasse on removing the president.

The book describes a virtual meeting of House Republicans on Jan. 11 after the Capitol Hill attack.

During the virtual meeting, US Rep. Dan Newhouse (Republican -Wash.) made the suggestion of removing Trump by forcing him to nominate a Vice President to take his place.

The Hill on Tuesday reported Newhouse as noting during the meeting that nobody had brought up the possibility of “invoking the 25th Amendment.”

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The 25th Amendment of the US Constitution enables the Cabinet to remove the president from office if more than half of the members of both Houses of Congress agree to it.

In the same meeting, fellow Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler from Washington had suggested that top Republican leaders in the House and Senate could ask Trump to resign, according to The Seattle Times as cited by The Hill.

“I think another way out that we should consider as a conference,” she was quoted by The Seattle Times as saying, “is asking our own leadership to join with the Republican leadership in the Senate and asking this president to resign.”

The Jan.11 meeting ended without a consensus; however, two days later, the House impeached Trump for a second time, with Herrera Beutler and Newhouse joining eight other Republicans and every Democrat in voting in favor of the impeachment.

Both the lawmakers, who were among the small minority of the Republican Party members who voted to impeach Trump back then, now face distrust by far-right Republican voters at their constituency, including some who claim falsely that Trump had won the 2020 election.

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