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WASHINGTON House Speaker Nancy Pelosi openly questioned President Donald Trump's fitness to remain in office Thursday, suggesting a family or staff "intervention" for the good of the nation after his dramatic blow-up at a White House meeting with Democrats.
No, said Trump's spokeswoman, it's the Democrats who are "insane" if they think he should work on legislation with them when they accuse him of engaging in a cover-up in the Trump-Russia election investigation.
Both the Republican president and Democratic leaders dug in a day after Trump stalked out of the Cabinet Room demanding an end to all congressional probes before he would work with Congress on crumbling U.S. infrastructure and other matters. By Thursday as Congress prepared to recess for the Memorial Day break, both sides were questioning each other's stability, with the president insisting on Twitter that he was calm when he left the White House meeting that was to focus on infrastructure spending after just three minutes.
Pelosi said Trump has established a pattern of unpredictability, and at one point she even joked about the 25th Amendment, the Constitution's provision laying out the procedure for replacing a president.
"I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference, adding that she prays for him and the nation.
"Maybe he wants to take a leave of absence," she said. Asked whether she's concerned about Trump's well-being, she replied, "I am."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-questions-trumps-fitness-time-for-intervention/ar-AABNNhQ
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)And Madam Speaker is a master of it.
elfin
(6,262 posts)Drip drip drip of one observation or successful House Judicial result ala bank records after another. One innuendo interspersed with big words he can't understand and then another plain as day after another.
It is not knowing if the "I" word is happening that is driving Dumpf even crazier than he already is..... and revealing it in the full light of day. Thereby adding another arrow to the Speaker's already crowded quiver.
So delay the ultimate reveal and the target will go absolutely Bonkers to the Max in public to the point a critical mass in the Senate can form. Either that or a critical mass of the electorate will form to make it certain the Repugs have no power for at least eight years.
So I am with our Speaker -- continue the torture via continued investigation and positive judicial results.