Graham Threatened To Call For Donald Trump’s Removal If He Didn’t Condemn 1/6
Carmine Sabia March 16, 2022
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened the White House that if former President Donald Trump did not condemn his supporters at the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol he would call for him to be removed from the presidency.
That is the claim of a new book, of which an excerpt was shown on Wednesday, The Daily Mail reported.
Graham, among the ex-president’s staunchest supporters in Congress, reportedly even hoped the insurrection would be a catalyst for the GOP breaking free of Trump.
He expressed that then-President-elect Joe Biden was the right person to lead the country amid the political tumult following the 2020 presidential election, according to the forthcoming book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future, by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
If Trump did not condemn the Capitol rioters on stronger terms, an ‘enraged’ Graham told White House counsel Pat Cipollone on January 6, then ‘we’ll be asking you for the 25th Amendment,’ reports from the book obtained by Axios read.
The 25th Amendment, which outlines presidential succession, gives the vice president and Cabinet the power to remove the commander-in-chief from office via majority vote. It has never been invoked in U.S. history. more
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