Joe Biden is “absolutely convinced” that the military would remove President Trump from the White House if he refuses to leave after a reelection loss in November.
“This president is going to try to steal this election,” Biden said in an interview on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Wednesday night.
When asked if Biden had considered what would happen if he wins but Trump refuses to leave the White House, the Democratic presidential nominee said he had.
“I’’m absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House with great dispatch,” Biden said.
Biden’s comments reflect concerns that many Democrats have felt about potential foul play in November’s election. Questions about access to mail-in ballots, as well as how to safely conduct in-person voting at the polls on Election Day amid the coronavirus pandemic, have amplified concerns about how the November election will unfold.
The former vice president said that he feared Trump could try to obstruct the voting process to secure an unfair win, adding that a fair election his “single greatest concern.”
Biden’s interview with Noah also touched on the protests that have sprung up across the nation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, whose death in police custody has spurred some demonstrators to call for police departments to be defunded.
“I don’t believe police should be defunded,” Biden said when pushed on the matter. “But I think the conditions should be placed upon them where departments are having to take significant reforms.”
Now we are openly discussing physically removing the occupant of the White(s Only) House should said occupant lose reelection and refuse to leave the premises. This is where we are now.
SMDH
I’ll be back. Have to run to the store for more popcorn. This is going to be a big day.
Trump would have absolutely no standing to remain on the premises:
AMENDMENT XX
Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933.
Note : Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment was superseded by section 3.
Section 1.
The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
This conversation gets so tedious. Occupying the White House does not make one President of the United States.
Transition under the Twentieth Amendment is not dependent on surrender of office. Section 1 says, “The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January,…” The winner of the Electoral College automatically becomes POTUS at noon EST on Jan 20. The sitting POTUS doesn’t have a role or an option of not stepping down.
Now if Trump tried to block the Electoral College from voting… The Twentieth Amendment says the Vice-President elect shall act as POTUS until it gets sorted by the incoming Congress* and not the previous Congress. The point is that if Trump is not re-elected, he’s out no matter how you slice it and his remaining is not an option available to him or his supporters
How many officers will it take to drag Trump out of that bunker?