Trump Cabinet Urged to Invoke 25th Amendment Against President [View all]

Source: Newsweek

President Donald Trump's social media post on Easter morning has prompted fresh calls to invoke the 25th Amendment, which only the president's Cabinet can do.

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Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, urged the Cabinet to consider the 25th Amendment, which allows it to remove the president from office under certain conditions, calling the president's post "completely, utterly unhinged."

"If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment," he wrote. "He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more."

The "thousands" likely refers to civilians across the Middle East caught in the crossfire of the war as well as Iranian military personnel. U.S.-based rights group HRANA reported that 3,531 people have been killed, of which 1,607 have been civilians, and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have said at least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in the strikes so far, according to Reuters.

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