Pence should consider invoking 25th Amendment to remove Trump, business ally of the president says
Nathan Bomey
USA TODAY
One of President Donald Trump's major business supporters is calling on Vice President Mike Pence to consider launching a constitutional process that could result in the president's removal from office.
National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons said Pence should "seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy."
His comments came as pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., clashing with police, breaking windows and making their way into the Senate chambers.
“This is not law and order. This is chaos. It is mob rule. It is dangerous. This is sedition and should be treated as such," Timmons said in a statement. "The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution and rejecting democracy in favor of anarchy. Anyone indulging conspiracy theories to raise campaign dollars is complicit."
National Association of Manufacturers CEO Jay Timmons appears with Vice President Mike Pence at The Phoenician, in Scottsdale, Arizona, in March 2019.
The 25th Amendment outlines procedures for ousting the president from office when the vice president and a majority of the president's executive officers or another body designated by Congress can take steps to declare the commander-in-chief unable to serve.
“This is not the vision of America that manufacturers believe in and work so hard to defend," Timmons said.
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