At 12:00pm, January 20th, 2025 someone is going to be sworn in as President of the United States.
If that individual is Donald TFG Trump, then he needs to worry about his Vice Presidential pick.
Since there will be no one in the Cabinet yet — “Principal Officers of the Executive Departments,” the Vice President is the whole shooting match. That Vice President can “transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House” that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
The Vice President then will assume IMMEDIATELY the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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And it goes on like that — a battle Royale (with cheese) between the Vice President (who cannot be fired) and the newly sworn in President. Yes, it requires 2/3 of both houses of Congress for the Vice President to eventually prevail, but as the VP is of the same party as the President it represents a unique opportunity for the Vice President to perform a “snap adoption” of the office of the Presidency. There are no Cabinet members at that point, and in that initial 48-hour period the new President cannot nominate any.
Furthermore, the Vice President (Acting President) can send the Congress away for up to three weeks.
Yes, it’s a bit more complicated than that, but it is waaaay less complicated than Chesebro’s false elector conspiracy.
Who can DJT trust as VP to not pull this stunt?
The world wonders.
Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Presidential Vacancy
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Section 4 Declaration by Vice President and Others
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Probably won’t happen, but paranoids have enemies too.