Trump's Vice President Mike Pence has at all times made public statements of effusive support for the president. There is no indication to date that Pence has ambitions to occupy the Oval Office in the White House. Even though Pence is often touted by the US establishment and media as the preferred option over Trump for the presidency. Pence is a mild-mannered conservative and staunchly pro-military which would make him a better figurehead.
Over the weekend, too, senior members of the Trump Cabinet including CIA director Mike Pompeo, US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, all made strident statements of support for President Trump and they rubbished the speculation about his mental ill-health.
However, Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff maintains that during his research the "25th Amendment option was talked about every day" by White House staff and aides.
Wolff quotes past and present senior Trump administration officials, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, HR McMaster, and Rex Tillerson, among others, as deploring the president for being mentally unfit, using derogatory comments like "idiot," "dumb as sh*t," or "moron."
Trump's Cabinet may be, for now, defending the president in the wake of Wolff's muckraking book. But if there is any truth to the claims, then one can anticipate that the knives will be drawn at an opportune moment.
Unlike the Russia-gate tactic, the attack on Trump's mental state may well have substance upon which to build a case for his defenestration.
Trump's erratic and reckless utterances do betray someone who is undergoing some kind of chronic personality disorder.
Where Russia-gate failed, the palace coup against "crazy Trump" may prove to be the more efficacious option to get the right figurehead into the White House -- eventually.
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