▲ US President Joe Biden initially had the support of Barack Obama, of whom he was vice president between 2009 and 2017. This image was taken on the 15th at a campaign event in Los Angeles, California.Photo Ap
From the Editorial Staff
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, July 28, 2024, p. 21
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh suggests that Barack Obama threatened Biden with the 25th Amendment, which justifies a removal from office as head of state, saying that he had Kamala’s approval (Harris, the vice president) to force him out of the presidential race.
In his article Leaving Las Vegaspublished on the Substack platform, Hersh maintains that former President Obama was deeply involved with the alleged bang and called Biden after his incident in Las Vegas, when he canceled his schedule after testing positive for covid-19.
“This week I reviewed (reports) with a senior official in Washington who helped me put together an ‘account’ of the White House in complete disarray,” Hersh said.
“On Sunday (July 20), Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,’” a senior White House official told Hersh.
The amendment provides that when the President is deemed by the Vice President and others to be unfit to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall assume those functions.
The Big Threethe official said, referring to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries were directly involved.
But Obama also made it clearthe anonymous source said, that he was not going to support her (Harris) immediately but that she would get approval and her experience as a prosecutor was seen as helping her deal with Trump in the debates.
(Obama) had an agenda and he wanted to pursue it to the end, he wanted to have control over who would be elected.the source cited by Hersh said.
