Democrats SILENT on 25th Amendment Plot Exposed

The same political establishment that spent years weaponizing the 25th Amendment against President Trump now remains conspicuously silent as their failed schemes come to light, exposing a coordinated effort to overturn the will of American voters through constitutional manipulation.

Story Overview

Democrats and media figures repeatedly called for Trump’s removal via the 25th Amendment from 2017 through January 2021, despite no medical incapacity
Vice President Mike Pence refused to invoke the constitutional provision after January 6, 2021, recognizing it as political overreach rather than legitimate disability concern
The 25th Amendment has never been successfully invoked for presidential removal, with previous uses limited strictly to temporary medical situations
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and partisan media outlets pushed the unprecedented weaponization of constitutional safeguards designed for genuine presidential incapacity

The Relentless Campaign to Overturn 2016

From the moment President Trump took office, Democrats orchestrated a multi-year assault on his presidency using every constitutional tool they could twist to their purposes. The 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967 to address genuine presidential disability following tragedies like President Garfield’s assassination and President Wilson’s stroke, became their weapon of choice. Beginning in 2017 with complaints about inaugural crowd size discussions and escalating through the Comey firing and foreign policy decisions, leftist politicians and compliant media outlets manufactured a narrative of presidential unfitness. This constitutional provision was never intended for policy disagreements or political vendettas, yet Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies attempted to pervert it into exactly that.

The campaign intensified throughout Trump’s first term, with Democrats seizing on every opportunity to question his mental fitness. When President Trump contracted COVID-19 in October 2020, Pelosi immediately raised 25th Amendment discussions rather than offering prayers for recovery. Later that year, Democratic Representatives including Ansari, Markey, and Kamlager-Dove went so far as to label the President “mentally ill” over diplomatic communications regarding Greenland, demanding immediate invocation of Section 4. These weren’t good-faith concerns about presidential capacity; they were transparent attempts to nullify the votes of 63 million Americans who chose Trump as their leader.

January 6 and the Final Power Grab

The events of January 6, 2021, provided Democrats and the mainstream media with their most aggressive push yet to remove President Trump before his term’s constitutional conclusion. Within hours of the Capitol breach, Cabinet discussions reportedly began about invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which allows the Vice President and Cabinet majority to declare the president unable to discharge his duties. Major newspapers including the Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Chicago Sun-Times published editorials demanding immediate removal, framing Trump’s rally speech as disqualifying incitement. Pelosi personally pressured Vice President Pence to activate the provision as an alternative to their rushed second impeachment effort.

Vice President Pence rightfully refused this unconstitutional maneuver, recognizing that the 25th Amendment addresses genuine incapacity, not political disagreements about a president’s rhetoric or policies. His decision upheld the constitutional framework our Founders established, preventing the dangerous precedent of removing elected presidents through bureaucratic coups rather than the ballot box. The amendment requires the Vice President and a Cabinet majority to determine inability to serve, but President Trump demonstrably continued executing his duties throughout the transition period. Pence understood that weaponizing this safeguard would open the door for future partisan removals whenever a president faced controversy, fundamentally undermining our constitutional republic.

Constitutional Guardrails Against Political Coups

The 25th Amendment’s Section 4 establishes high barriers for a reason: removing a duly elected president should never be easy or politically motivated. Previous invocations involved only temporary, voluntary medical transfers, such as President Reagan’s 1985 surgery or President Bush’s routine medical procedures. No president has ever been involuntarily removed under Section 4, and the Trump-era attempts revealed why the Founders built such protections. Legal scholars noted that while some framed Trump’s actions as meeting “fundamental unfitness,” the constitutional standard requires genuine inability to discharge duties, not policy positions that anger political opponents or media elites.

The failed efforts to remove President Trump exposed the left’s willingness to destroy constitutional norms when election results don’t favor them. Rather than accept the 2016 verdict of American voters, Democrats spent four years attempting removal through the Russia hoax, two partisan impeachments, and repeated 25th Amendment threats. These attacks weakened respect for constitutional processes and deepened the divisions they claimed to oppose. President Trump completed his full term on January 20, 2021, and the American people ultimately rendered their judgment in 2024 by returning him to office, vindicating his presidency and repudiating those who sought to overturn democracy through constitutional manipulation.