Adam Kinzinger calls for using 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

Published January 7, 2021 5:02pm ET



Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, has called on Vice President Mike Pence and members of President Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office just two weeks head of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Claiming that Trump has become “unmoored, not just from his duty or even his oath but from reality itself,” Kinzinger called on “the vice president and members of the Cabinet to ensure that the next few are safe for the American people and that we have a sane captain of the ship.”

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