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No — based on the reporting provided, Section 4 of the 25th Amendment has not been invoked against President Donald Trump today; the record in these sources shows only discussion and advocacy about in...
Rachel Maddow and her show have repeatedly spotlighted the 25th Amendment as a constitutional avenue discussed during periods of acute concern about President Trump’s fitness for office, while urging ...
No—there has never been a successful invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove or permanently displace Donald J. Trump from the presidency; what occurred instead were urgent discussions, public calls...
Available public accounts say rioters at the Capitol chanted “Hang Mike Pence” and that some witnesses told investigators President Trump reacted in ways that supported or did not oppose those chants ...
Media and watchdogs documented thousands of false or misleading statements by Donald Trump across his presidencies; one widely cited tally counted roughly 30,573 untruths by the end of his first term ...
Newly released footage shows then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying “I take responsibility” for security failures on Jan. 6 and asking why the National Guard “wasn’t there to begin with,” but multiple fact‑...
Multiple contemporary news accounts and eyewitness reporting establish that supporters of then-President Trump at the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” erected a makeshift gal...
On Jan. 6, 2021 a pro‑Trump mob that had breached the U.S. Capitol chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” erected a makeshift gallows and came within tens of feet of the vice president as his Secret Service detai...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment’s involuntary‑transfer provision in Section 4 — which requires the vice president plus a majority of the Cabinet (or a congressionally‑created body) to declare the president...
Ivanka Trump testified to the House Select Committee investigating January 6 in a video interview lasting roughly eight hours, saying she tried to calm her father, urged him to call off the rioters, a...
Multiple officials played roles in the decision to send National Guard personnel to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: . Claims that former President Trump personally ordered a 20,000-troop deployme...
Trump’s second-term actions shifted away from several Biden executive initiatives that would have tested pilot models to lower Medicare and Medicaid drug costs, while preserving statutory changes alre...
Calls to use the 25th Amendment against Donald Trump in the wake of January 6, 2021, were public, repeated and discussed by lawmakers, legal scholars and commentators — but no formal, successful invoc...
The evidence shows played organizing and planning roles for January 6: the permit applicant Women for America First misled authorities about marching plans, and extremist groups including the Oath Kee...
Donald Trump did reference Vice President Mike Pence in the public materials and surrounding evidence linked to the January 6, 2021, Ellipse rally; authoritative transcript indexes list Pence among en...
The Heritage Foundation has produced a steady stream of conservative officials who have moved into influential government roles, particularly in Republican administrations: at least 66 employees and a...
Donald Trump’s January 6 speech is consistently identified by the assembled analyses as a significant to the Capitol breach, but the exact causal pathway—whether direct legal incitement or broader mob...
The 25th Amendment has been repeatedly discussed as a route to remove Donald Trump, most prominently after the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack and again in 2025 after controversial remarks, but it has...
President Trump has publicly claimed hugely implausible percentage reductions — saying he would cut drug prices “1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent” in remarks and briefings . Inde...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump did not attend—and was not invited to—former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Nov. 20, 2025, funeral at the Washington National Cathedral, and Trump public...