Keith Olbermann Comes Up With a Surprisingly Easy, Little-Known, Totally Constitutional Plan to Fire President Trump

Alexandra Rosenmann
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 Alexandra Rosenmann
November 29, 2016

As Green Party nominee Jill Stein pushes for election recounts and activists urge Electoral College to buck their state's choice, Keith Olbermann has been devising an even better plan to strip Trump of power. 

"The Constitution was surprisingly vague on what happens if a president dies or is incapacitated in office," Olbermann explained in his GQ show The Resistance, turning to The 25th Amendment, Section Four." 

"[It was] written nearly 52 years ago, more with Woodrow Wilson in mind, and yet it might as well have been named for Donald John Trump," the host remarked.
This part details the conditions for "instant impeachment," according tp Olberman. 
In roughly three weeks, a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate and written agreement from the vice president and the President's cabinet "results in the president remaining in office with the title but without the power," Oberman explained
"So it's a crazy-man clause, right? In the case of Trump, it presumes he behaves as president as he is behaving as president-elect," he offered, pointing to the mounting evidence that Trump will be "unable to discharge his duties," as the Consitution states. 

"For my money, he's nuts — couldn't pass a sanity test, open book," Olbermann continued. "But of course, Section Four of the 25th Amendment here does not say 'nuts' — or impaired, or erratic or unbalanced or unhealthy or bipolar or narcissist or sociopath or psychopath. It only says 'that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

While Olbermann believes that sounds "kind of vague,"he thinks it's worth looking into. 

Still, what about the 60 million plus people who voted for him? Well, they also voted for Mike Pence, who would assume the presidency.

"Even if you loathe or fear Trump, you must look at this and say: 'This can't happen in a democracy, the people voted for him. You can't just un-president him,'" Olbermann explained. "The hell you can't!"

And they can do it as soon as the inauguration is finished, without any diagnosis from any doctor, without any evidence of corrption. 

"It doesn't say anything at all about why the president might be unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, it just talks about letters and declarations in 21 days and a two-thirds vote," Olbermann noted. 

The reason could simply be: They don't trust him. 

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