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Former President Donald Trump may have said Thursday that the 25th Amendment shouldn’t be invoked against President Joe Biden, but that wasn’t enough to deter at least one House Republican who has been calling for the president to resign.
NOTUS caught up with Rep. Chip Roy, who authored a resolution earlier this month to call on Harris to invoke the 25th.
“Of course, it should be invoked. The dude’s not there, and he’s still commander in chief,” Roy said, breaking with Trump and echoing an attack line many on the right have lobbed at Biden since his campaign-ending debate performance last month.
To be clear, Harris, not Congress, holds the power to invoke the 25th Amendment, which Roy acknowledged. But neither that nor the GOP presidential nominee’s position has changed his mind on the matter.
“The vice president’s not gonna do it, and if they did, he’d resign and she’d become president. This is all Kabuki theater. We have a job to do, and we don’t run campaigns off the House floor,” Roy said.
—Katherine Swartz is a NOTUS reporter and an Allbritton Journalism Institute fellow.
NOTUS caught up with Rep. Chip Roy, who authored a resolution earlier this month to call on Harris to invoke the 25th.
“Of course, it should be invoked. The dude’s not there, and he’s still commander in chief,” Roy said, breaking with Trump and echoing an attack line many on the right have lobbed at Biden since his campaign-ending debate performance last month.
To be clear, Harris, not Congress, holds the power to invoke the 25th Amendment, which Roy acknowledged. But neither that nor the GOP presidential nominee’s position has changed his mind on the matter.
“The vice president’s not gonna do it, and if they did, he’d resign and she’d become president. This is all Kabuki theater. We have a job to do, and we don’t run campaigns off the House floor,” Roy said.
—Katherine Swartz is a NOTUS reporter and an Allbritton Journalism Institute fellow.
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Former Capitol Cop Calls Trump an ‘Authoritarian’ and His Mom Gets ‘Swatted’
Hours after former Capitol Police officer Michael Fanone spoke on Tuesday outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse, where he called Trump “an authoritarian,” his mother had a SWAT team called to her address responding to a potentially active shooter, according to NBC News. Fanone, who was violently attacked on Jan. 6 and became a national figure speaking out against the Capitol riot, told NBC that incidents like this were “the reality of going up against or challenging Donald Trump.”