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By Melissa Mahtani, CNN
Updated 1:29 PM ET, Wed August 23, 2017
(CNN)Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier is voicing concerns over President Trump's mental fitness and calling for him to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment.
In comments Tuesday on CNN, Speier said there's "a growing mountain of evidence that the president has been very erratic" and "has shown a mental instability."
"It was crystallized last week with a combination of his comments about fire and fury that he offered up against Kim Jong-un and North Korea and how we would take him out, followed by his back and forth on Charlottesville and how he really became almost abusive in calling people out when he was really telling from his soul what he thought about the Charlottesville incident," she told CNN's Jim Sciutto.
"If you go back in time, like six years, and watch interviews that he gave then where he could put a whole sentence together, but now tends to put a few words together and then goes off into another sentence unrelated to the first," she added. "It is an indication to me that there is some trouble there that is more than just a one-off" ...
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