It has been noted that former President Donald Trump has claimed that President Joe Biden was forced to drop out of the race under threat of the 25th amendment.
The GOP nominee spoke to a friendly crowd in Nashville at the Bitcoin Conference where he claimed that Democrats pushed out Biden from the election by threatening to have his cabinet remove him. It has been for weeks that Biden faced pressure from members of his own party to bow out of the race after his poor debate performance against Trump.
Under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the vice president and a majority of the cabinet can vote that the president cannot perform his duties and move to replace the commander-in-chief with the vice president.
Biden has vowed not to drop out of the race multiple times before giving up to pressure from party lawmakers and leaders.
At the Bitcoin conference, Trump retold how he saw it going down, complete with a quip about Biden quickly changing his mind after being threatened.
He’s losing the fight. He’s down by 15, 16, 17 points. They say that, ‘You’re not going to win, Joe, you gotta get out.’
He didn’t want to get out. He said ‘I’m not getting out.’ He said you’re getting out. He said, ‘I’m not getting out. I got 14 million votes. I’m not getting out.’
They said, ‘If you’re not getting out, we’re going to institute the 25th amendment on your mental competence.’
He said, ‘Like I said before, I think I’m going to get out.’ Okay? And they got him out.
But it’s like, think of this. You fight, you, you’re in a campaign. You spend a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of effort. And he’s losing. And then they say, let’s take him out of the fight. We’ll put a new fighter in there. The new fighter is her. Probably my second choice. He will always be my first choice, but she’d be my second choice.
