This is a weekend's worth of reading which could be titled "The sum of all fears." For those criticizing Trump and his handling of the pandemic in any way, here's an excerpt explaining a law I never heard about that would have been used to 25th him, and how he dealt with the situation.
"On the other side of “presidential competence” and respective to Trump was the 25th Amendment. Pretext for use of the 25th already existed in abundance and whereby it would have been leveraged to remove Trump had he not complied with the Task Force’s decisions and recommended actions throughout the pandemic and for example, policies on masking, lock downs and mRNA vaccinations. Federalism as the enforcement mechanism bears down as the federal apparatus only issued those recommendations, which were then codified and issued by edict and enforced by governors in each state.
This effectively amounted to the functional usurpation of Trump’s Article II Executive authority. This is also why Trump effectively compartmentalized all of the culpability for COVID-19 with the Task Force when he twice forced Dr. Anthony Fauci to publicly correct the record on Task Force recommendations and his immediate acceptance of them in a mid-April 2020 press conference. In other words, Trump forced Fauci to state that everything Trump said and did was their responsibility, not Trump’s."
This is a weekend's worth of reading which could be titled "The sum of all fears." For those criticizing Trump and his handling of the pandemic in any way, here's an excerpt explaining a law I never heard about that would have been used to 25th him, and how he dealt with the situation.
"On the other side of “presidential competence” and respective to Trump was the 25th Amendment. Pretext for use of the 25th already existed in abundance and whereby it would have been leveraged to remove Trump had he not complied with the Task Force’s decisions and recommended actions throughout the pandemic and for example, policies on masking, lock downs and mRNA vaccinations. Federalism as the enforcement mechanism bears down as the federal apparatus only issued those recommendations, which were then codified and issued by edict and enforced by governors in each state.
This effectively amounted to the functional usurpation of Trump’s Article II Executive authority. This is also why Trump effectively compartmentalized all of the culpability for COVID-19 with the Task Force when he twice forced Dr. Anthony Fauci to publicly correct the record on Task Force recommendations and his immediate acceptance of them in a mid-April 2020 press conference. In other words, Trump forced Fauci to state that everything Trump said and did was their responsibility, not Trump’s."