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Democrats push 25th Amendment while Biden's record haunts Newsom

Democrats push 25th Amendment while Biden's record haunts Newsom

Representative Jamie Raskin introduced a bill to examine President Trump's removal via the 25th Amendment as Governor Newsom called Trump's election speech a…

The same week that Representative Jamie Raskin introduced a bill to examine removing President Donald Trump through the 25th Amendment, Governor Gavin Newsom amplified the push by calling Trump's election integrity speech "the rambling of a mad king" — a moment he described as a legitimate ground for invoking the amendment, according to Fox News Digital. The political fallout was immediate, and it landed squarely on Newsom's own record of defending former President Joe Biden, who was 82 years old at the time concerns about his cognitive health were most acute. 🔹 What happened: On Thursday evening, Trump delivered a nationally televised address claiming that newly declassified documents would expose Chinese data theft affecting 220 million voters, that U.S. government officials had concealed election vulnerabilities for years, and that new evidence of election fraud existed. Fox News Digital stated it could not independently verify the documents' contents. Newsom responded on social media by calling for the 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, to be invoked. Raskin's bill would establish a process for Congress to examine the president's fitness — but faces steep obstacles in the current legislative composition. 🔹 Why it matters: For voters who watched Biden's cognitive decline become a subject of Democratic Party debate before his 2024 withdrawal, Newsom's current position raises direct credibility questions. The Republican National Committee wrote on X that Democrats had "lied to the American people about his cognitive decline for four years." Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch argued Newsom is targeting Trump for disclosing alleged electoral irregularities. Ordinary citizens are left without independent access to the declassified documents Trump referenced, making it impossible to assess the underlying claims — or the response to them. 📌 EPM Take: The asymmetry here has a concrete timeline. Newsom called Biden "one of the greatest presidents ever" — a position he maintained even as Democratic insiders debated replacing Biden on the 2024 ticket, which ultimately happened. Now he is invoking the language of cognitive unfitness against Trump within months of a midterm election. The pattern EPM has tracked in previous coverage — where institutional pressure is used to sideline inconvenient investigations — applies here in a different register: when cognitive fitness becomes a partisan argument rather than a medical standard, working-class voters who depend on functional federal governance pay the most direct price. The bill will not pass. But the precedent it sets — that the 25th Amendment is a legitimate electoral tactic — is the story nobody is naming. ✍️ EPM Editorial Desk | erickprometeomedia.com
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