“The goal at the present moment is to address the existential threat that Donald Trump presents at this time. Every second, every minute, every hour that Donald Trump remains in office presents a danger to the American people,” Jeffries said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“You know, Donald Trump may be in the Twitter penalty box, but he still has access to the nuclear codes. That s a frightening prospect,” he added, referring to the president s suspension from Twitter.
“All of our efforts at the present moment are focused on his immediate removal. That s the right thing to do. The House is a separate and co-equal branch of government,” Jeffries added. “We have a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an out of control executive branch. Donald Trump is completely and totally out of control, and even his longtime enablers have now come to that conclusion.”
th Amendment, in which a president’s Cabinet votes for removal, “is a very clumsy tool” and “we’ve never used it under these circumstances.”
As for Democrats’ plans to impeach the president for a second time, Mulvaney declined to say whether he would support it if he were still in Congress, adding that he would take it really seriously.”
“I can assure you there would be members of both parties who would look at it very, very differently than they did last year,” he said.
Mulvaney also acknowledged he had been wrong to predict in a Wall Street Journal op-ed predicting that Trump would accept defeat in the event of an electoral loss.