Democrat proposes psychiatric examination to take Trump out of the White House

Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Loefgren presented a resolution to the US Congress on Friday that, if approved, could force US President Donald Trump to undergo a medical and psychiatric examination, The Mercury News reported .

In her proposal, the parliamentarian says that it is necessary to know if Trump is qualified to remain in the US's command. If this is not attested, the country's vice president Mike Pence and other members of Trump's cabinet could evoke Amendment 25 of the country's constitution, which provides for the removal of presidents for "incapacity."

"President Donald J. Trump exhibited an alarming pattern of behavior and speech causing concern that a mental disorder may have made him unfit and unable to fulfill his constitutional duties," the Democrat's resolution says.

The MP's initiative also calls for Trump's office to quickly "secure the services of medical and psychiatric professionals to examine the president [...] to determine whether the president suffers from mental disorder or another injury that impairs his abilities and prevents him from fulfilling his obligations. Constitutional duties ".

In a statement, Loefgren's office questioned whether Trump had "early stage dementia" or whether "office stress aggravates disabling impulse control of mental illness." "I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist," Lofgren said in an interview on Friday. "If it were a physical illness, you would receive the doctors' advice. The same must be true to take a look at your stability here," he added.

The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution states that the vice president and the majority of the cabinet may temporarily remove the president from office by declaring him "unable to fulfill the powers and duties of his office" in a letter to Congress. The vice president would then become the interim president.

If the president opposes a removal of the trustee, the debate goes to Congress. A two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress is bound to keep the president out of office. For now, the White House has not spoken about the initiative.