MAGA Republican: Invoke 25th amendment against 'puppet' Biden surrounded by Dem 'cadre'
A Texas Republican is calling on Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th amendment to remove President Joe Biden, who he said is surrounded by a "cadre" of ventriloquist-esque progressives who are manipulating his moves like a "puppet."
Rep. Chip Roy spoke with Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday to discuss his resolution for the first time since filing it last week.
The MAGA Republican's resolution called on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene Biden's Cabinet and declare him unable to carry out his duties as commander-in-chief.
“I put forth a resolution calling upon the Vice President to immediately use her powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the Cabinet to declare the President of the United States is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office," Roy said at the time.
Under the amendment, the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet can notify the president pro tempore of the Senate and the House Speaker that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office. Doing so would allow the vice president to become acting president.
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Roy, speaking with Baier after the White House declared Wednesday Biden would "absolutely not" drop out of the race, said he took "no great joy" in filing the resolution, but did so out of concerns that Americans are now seeing the "reality" of "what a lot of us have been watching up close and personally in Washington, D.C."
Roy blasted the Biden administration and said they're trying to "hide" his lack of competency and ability. And while he believes former President Donald Trump will beat either Biden or Harris in the election, he called it an "issue of the constitution, straight-up," to remove Biden.
"The president, frankly, isn't all there. Everybody knows it. It is telling that the media, the mainstream media, so-called, is all in a tizzy because of the political ramifications," he said, adding that he believes the media has been "propping up a Manchurian Candidate."
The phrase stems from a 1959 novel and two subsequent films in 1962 and 2004, and involves the idea that a politician or a high-ranking official can be manipulated or brainwashed to serve a sinister external power or organization.
Indeed, that's the theory Roy put forward to justify impeachment.
"The radical left is sitting around him in the White House, can manipulate and puppet-master him into doing all of these radical, progressive, Democrat things like open-borders, Laken Riley getting killed, Rachel Morrin, all the people suffering from fentanyl pouring into our borders, and walking away from Israel," he said.
Roy slammed Democrats for what he called "circling the wagons" and said they're trying to justify keeping a "feeble" Biden as president by surrounding him with people who can make decisions for him.
"That's not what the Constitution says," he said.
Roy then repeated his claim that Democrats put a "cadre" around the president to advance their "radical agenda" using Biden as a "puppet."