Omarosa: WH Staffers Used #TFA As Shorthand For 25th Amendment

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Trump administration officials often used the hashtag #TFA with each other as a shorthand for the 25th Amendment, former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday. That lends some credence to the anonymous New York Times op-ed writer — a “senior” Trump administration official, the paper said — who claimed “there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president.”

H/t Axios.

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  1. Let’s get a t-shirt order in for that one…

    Total
    F’ing
    Abomination

  2. Did she write about that in her book before the Op-Ed came out, otherwise its an after-the-fact statement that hasn’t been fact-checked with her claims. If she has those earlier texts with those hashtags in them, she should produce them.

    Personally, I think she’s trying to cash in on someone else’s reporting and that Op-Ed, just so she can continue to sell her book. She has always been a bit of a revisionist whenever she has a story to tell from her POV. One thing we know, she is is a complete opportunist by nature.

    I’d rather see that fucker behind bars more than anything, and certainly above all the other methods conceived by our Founders, to oust him. He has committed crimes. Big and small. Constantly. Before and during his time in office.

    I still can’t figure out how anyone could say if the President of the United States, right now, took a gun out and committed murder on Fifth Ave., he shouldn’t face prosecution and prison time for that murder like any other citizen in this country. Someone please explain that. How can they be given dictatorial rights no other citizen would have, and escape punishment for a crime any other citizen would be held to?

  3. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Rolling, Rolling, Rolling.

  4. Mike and Mother Pence use the abbreviation MTD - Measuring The Drapes.

  5. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    If the President’s closest advisors are talking about the 25th amendment -even in jest -the country is in immense trouble. And with a Congress so compliant as to put a lapdog to shame, no way to remedy the situation.

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