1/7/2021

25th AMENDMENT/GOP: “Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday [Jan. 7, 2021] became the first GOP lawmaker to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.

It came a day after a pro-Trump mob stormed and ransacked the U.S. Capitol in a futile bid to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Kinzinger, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who continues to serve in the Air Force, lay blame for the insurrection at the feet of the president himself, who had urged his supporters to march on the Capitol…

‘It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment and to end this nightmare,’ Kinzinger said.”

-Scott Wong, “First GOP lawmaker calls for invoking 25th Amendment to remove Trump,” thehill.com, Jan. 7, 2021