'FAKE NEWS': Pence team denies anonymous op-ed author claim about 25th Amendment

'FAKE NEWS': Pence team denies anonymous op-ed author claim about 25th Amendment - Washington Examiner

A spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence denied a claim in the upcoming anonymous tell-all…

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A spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence denied a claim in the upcoming anonymous tell-all book that he considered supporting the use of the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.

“FAKE NEWS,” Pence’s press secretary Katie Waldman tweeted Wednesday evening.

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FAKE NEWS. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192271574365278208 …

Yashar Ali

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1. Exclusive: I’ve obtained passages from the book by ‘Anonymous’, the author of the NYT Op-ed

In the book, Anonymous claims that senior officials had no doubt that Pence would support invoking the 25th amendment if the majority of the cabinet agreed. http://bit.ly/2oTB3ga

Excerpts from The Warning, written by the anonymous Trump administration official who authored a “resistance” op-ed last year, were reported by HuffPost.

High-level White House aides did a tally of Cabinet members they thought would be willing to sign a letter to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment declaring the president unfit to perform his duties. They believed Pence would be in favor of using the 25th Amendment if a majority of the Cabinet agreed to it.

A majority of the Cabinet and the vice president himself would have to sign off on the letter before it got sent to Congress. This would grant Pence the role of acting president.

But the 25th Amendment idea never reached a tangible stage.

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‘FAKE NEWS’: Pence team denies anonymous op-ed author claim about 25th Amendment