Trump 'not mentally well,'- Richard Painter.
President
Donald Trump is “not well at all mentally” and Congress needs to remove him
under the 25th Amendment, former President George W. Bush’s chief ethics attorney
Richard Painter said Monday.
Painter,
speaking on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams,” accused Trump of
“throwing a hissy fit” after Congress didn’t give him the $5 billion he
initially requested for the wall and instead declared a national emergency
along the U.S. southern border with
Painter,
whose "dumpster fire" ad during his failed U.S. Senate bid was widely
mocked, called Trump’s actions illegal.
“I think we
need to understand, though, why we’re in this situation. The president is not
well at all mentally. I think he’s an extreme narcissist. He has been denied
what he wants, his wall, and he is having a hissy fit. He is out of control,
and he will not take no for an answer from Congress. And he’s going do this,”
Painter said.
“He is going
to insist on doing he is going to tear the country apart. It’s
unconstitutional. It’s illegal. He is going to do enormous damage to the
Republican Party which is going to split right down the middle over this, and
we really need to keep in mind that this is because the president is not well,”
he added.
Painter then
asserted that because Trump allegedly believes Russian President Vladimir Putin
over his own intelligence agencies makes him unwell and unfit for the office of
president.
“He is not
capable of doing the job. He does need to be removed under the 25th amendment,
but he stocked his cabinet with people who are unwilling to do that, and
Congress is apparently unwilling to even try to remove him through
impeachment,” he said.
Trump on
Friday declared a national emergency to complete construction of his
multibillion-dollar along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Congress
approved less than $1.4 billion in the budget deal for just 55 miles of new
barriers and fencing.
A senior administration official said, White House plans to move $8 billion in
currently appropriated or available funds toward construction of the wall.
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