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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Ex-CIA director calls for ousting Trump: ‘25th amendment was written with him in mind’

A man in a suit sitting at a table with his chin on his hands.
Former CIA director John Brennan in Washington DC on 23 May 2017. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he is unfit for the job, arguing that the US constitution’s 25th amendment addressing involuntary removal from office was “written with Donald Trump in mind”.

Brennan, who served as head of the spy agency during Barack Obama’s presidency, told MS Now on Saturday that Trump’s recent volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civilization and the danger he posed to so many lives merited his removal from the Oval Office.

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