{"id":1723417,"date":"2022-11-03T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723417"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:23:04","slug":"olivia-rondeau-the-hill-publishes-op-ed-suggesting-baffled-and-confused-biden-may-be-removed-via-25th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olivia-rondeau-the-hill-publishes-op-ed-suggesting-baffled-and-confused-biden-may-be-removed-via-25th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rondeau: The Hill Publishes Op-Ed Suggesting &#8220;Baffled and Confused&#8221; Biden May Be Removed via 25th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Folivia-rondeau-the-hill-publishes-op-ed-suggesting-baffled-and-confused-biden-may-be-removed-via-25th-amendment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_biden_2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a seemingly out-of-character move, <em>The Hill<\/em> published an op-ed on Tuesday that questioned if <a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2022\/10\/18\/posobiec-the-regime-is-planning-to-lock-steve-bannon-up\">President Joe Biden<\/a> will be removed from office under the 25th Amendment due to his declining mental health, a flag that the piece notes was waved at former <a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2022\/10\/13\/j6-committee-unanimously-votes-to-subpoena-trump\">President Donald Trump<\/a> &#8220;mostly because they didn\u2019t like him or his policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a controversial piece titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/3714038-is-a-25th-amendment-removal-in-joe-bidens-future\/\">Is a 25th Amendment removal in Joe Biden\u2019s future<\/a>?,&#8221; Hill opinion contributor Merrill Matthews made his case.<\/p>\n<p>According to Matthews, the conversation of Biden&#8217;s unfitness for office is one that &#8220;the left and the media forced on the public during the Trump administration.&#8221; Almost immediately after entering office, there were calls for him to be removed under the 25th Amendment, which can be invoked when a president is found to be unable to carry out his duties as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews wrote about how in January 2018, questions on Trump&#8217;s &#8220;mental fitness for the heavy duties of the presidency&#8221; prompted him to undergo a cognitive test, which he said he &#8220;aced&#8221; to &#8220;shut these people up,&#8221; in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ma5uG7alUk\">interview with <em>Fox News<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In December 2019, 350 psychiatrists and other mental health professionals signed a petition during the Democrats&#8217; first impeachment fiasco claiming Trump\u2019s mental health was rapidly deteriorating,&#8221; Matthews continued, listing examples of the Democrats failing to oust Trump over his health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the accusations took on renewed urgency right after the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>After acknowledging Trump&#8217;s perceived health issues, Matthews claimed that &#8220;Biden&#8217;s issues are substantively different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We frequently see him, after he has delivered a speech, wander off as if he doesn&#8217;t know where he is or where he&#8217;s supposed to go. Someone hurries over and takes his arm and points him in the right direction,&#8221; he wrote of the current president, who will turn 80 this month. &#8220;At times he&#8217;s lucid and in control, but at other times he seems baffled and confused. It&#8217;s not unusual to see this behavior in older people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one of Biden&#8217;s latest gaffes, he claimed that there are 54 states.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If that is indeed mental decline we&#8217;re seeing, it will likely get worse,&#8221; Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the columnist, it&#8217;s &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; that Vice President Kamala Harris would invoke the 25th Amendment in order to take Biden&#8217;s place, but it is possible that Democratic leaders would use the threat of the amendment &#8220;as leverage to get him to agree&#8221; to not run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a seemingly out-of-character move, The Hill published an op-ed on Tuesday that questioned if President Joe Biden will be removed from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1723420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}