US election: President Donald Trump erupts after Democrats push for impeachment

The Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, questions the aptitude of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to serve and announces legislation that would create a commission that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove the president of its executive functions.

Just weeks before the Nov. 3 election, Pelosi said Trump needs to reveal more about his health after his Covid-19 diagnosis.

He noted that Trump’s “strange tweet” interrupted talks about a new coronavirus aid package (he subsequently tried to reverse course) and said Americans need to know when, exactly, he first contracted Covid when others in the House. Blanca got infected.

On Friday (Saturday NZT), he plans to implement legislation that the commission would release for review.

“The public needs to know the health of the president,” Pelosi said, after invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows the president’s cabinet or Congress to intervene when a president is unable to carry out the functions of office.

Trump responded quickly via Twitter.

“Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation. They don’t call her crazy for nothing!” said the president.

The president’s opponents have debated invoking the 25th Amendment for some time, but are raising it now, so close to Election Day, as the campaigns are rapidly turning into a referendum on Trump’s handling of the pandemic of coronavirus.

More than 210,000 Americans have died and millions more infected by the virus that shows no signs of abating and is headed for what public health experts warn will be a difficult flu season and winter.

Trump says he “feels great” after being hospitalized and is back at work in the White House. But her doctors have given mixed signals about her diagnosis and treatment. Trump plans to resume the campaign soon.

Congress is not in legislative session, so the measure is unlikely to be seriously considered, much less votes in the House or Senate. But the bill serves as a political tool to stoke questions about Trump’s health, as his own White House is hit by an outbreak infecting top aides, staff and visitors, including senators.

In a surprising admission, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said Thursday that he had stopped going to the White House two months ago because he did not agree to its coronavirus protocols. His last visit was on August 6.

Trump abruptly stopped talks this week about the new Covid aid package, sending the economy reeling, his Republican allies fighting back, and leaving millions of Americans without additional support. Then he immediately changed course and tried to start the talks.

It all came in a series of tweets and comments that spun through his head days after he returned to the White House after his hospitalization with Covid-19.

First, Trump told Republican leaders in Congress on Tuesday to stop negotiating on an aid package. By Wednesday, he was trying to get everyone back to the table for his priority items, including the $ 1,200 stimulus checks for nearly all adult Americans.

Pelosi said Thursday that the Democrats were “still at the table” and her office resumed talks with the chief negotiator, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.