Mnuchin, Pompeo Mulled Plan To Remove Trump After January 6
ABC News's Jonathan Karl writes in "Betrayal" that then-Treasury Secretary
Steve Mnuchin spoke with other Cabinet members including then-Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo about attempting to remove Trump from office through
the 25th Amendment, according to excerpts published by MSNBC.
Karl, during an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" early Monday,
said Pompeo "asked for a legal analysis of the 25th Amendment and
how it would work," but the idea was "quickly jettisoned" the next day
once the officials recognized how difficult the path for such an effort
would be, namely as then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and then-
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao were resigning.
"It would not be quick enough and it would be subject to legal challenges,"
Karl said on MSNBC. "But in the hours after the riot, there were high-level
conversations about this," he emphasized. Karl attributes the reporting to
"a source familiar with the conversations" and told the MSNBC hosts that
his story is "rock solid."