Trump's team won't invoke the 25th Amendment. Here's a better way to stop him. (Miles Taylor) [View all]

https://www.defiance.news/p/trumps-team-wont-invoke-the-25th

In Trump's first term, I participated in secret debates about the president's derangement and whether to invoke emergency powers. Only one scenario seemed viable.
Miles Taylor
Apr 06, 2026

Years ago, I revealed that Trump’s Cabinet discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office during his first term. We ran the scenarios. And there was only one that made sense.

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In 2018, I disclosed that members of Donald Trump’s own cabinet had privately discussed invoking the Twenty-Fifth Amendment during his first term. What I described was not rumor or speculation. It was the lived reality of senior officials who had concluded, in private, that the president might be trending toward the type of unhinged conduct that could conceivably justify his removal. We weren’t there yet. But we could all see where his impulsive conduct and disconnection from reality was headed. It wasn’t good.

We judged that Trump was capable of getting us into an accidental nuclear conflict. I can’t think of more appropriate circumstances than that to invoke the Amendment. Yet those Cabinet members, almost to a person, chose not to act.

Why? The mechanics of that hesitation are worth revisiting.

By early 2018, the conversations were real and they were serious. Rod Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, had discussed not only wearing a wire in the Oval Office but invoking what officials in those days simply called “the Twenty-Fifth.” The White House chief of staff had quietly conducted an informal whip count of sorts among cabinet secretaries. The results were sobering and instructive.

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