Who's next?
I remember starting a similar thread in Trump's first term at about the same time, just when the mid terms were coming up. Trump realizes his winning team is losing, and he makes changes.
This time around he first cans Kristi Noem--look at the mess she has gotten herself in.
Then he cans Pam Bondi--Epstein files and her lack of progress in going after his perceived enemies.
Whose next?
Will it be Tulsi Gabbard
or
Kash Patel?
My money is on Pete Hegseth because the war is not going so well.
The dream team is falling apart. It has become a nightmare.
Who is next.
This time around he first cans Kristi Noem--look at the mess she has gotten herself in.
Then he cans Pam Bondi--Epstein files and her lack of progress in going after his perceived enemies.
Whose next?
Will it be Tulsi Gabbard
or
Kash Patel?
My money is on Pete Hegseth because the war is not going so well.
The dream team is falling apart. It has become a nightmare.
Who is next.
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That still may happen, though I do not think it will happen until after the mid terms.
Under the 25th even if the cabinet declares the president incapacitated, he can still appeal to the congress to reinstate him. After the new congress is seated, assuming the majority are Democrats in both houses, he could not hope to be reinstated.
Thus, he has to pad the cabinet with as many of his loyalists as he can.
But it would be sweet if they boot him.
He doesn’t appeal to Congress to reinstate him exactly. If he submits a written declaration to Congress that he is under no disability from executing the duties of his office, then he is automatically reinstated unless the vice-president and a majority of the cabinet, within four days, submit their own written declaration that he is unable to execute the duties of his office. If that happens, and if Congress does not vote by 2/3 majorities in both Houses that he is unable to execute the duties of his office, he would automatically be reinstated to office.
So it’s not enough for Democrats to have majorities in each chamber. (And I can see reasons related to the 2028 elections why some Democrats would be leery of voting for removal.)
Of course, I think it’s theoretical to start with. I simply can’t imagine Trump’s cabinet acting to remove him, especially knowing that Congress would be very unlikely to back them up.
Leavitt is the fall person for unpopularity in the media and polls.
I’m not sure who else might fall first. But it looks like one of them.
Personally, I hope it’s Hegseth. Both dreadful and incompetent.