According to ABC’s Jonathan Karl, the very same people who are out there today defending Donald Trump with the most intensity were also involved in meetings during which they discussed removing Trump from office on January 7th by way of the 25th Amendment, saying he was mentally unfit.

In speaking to Morning Joe, Karl said:

“There was such concern about Trump’s state of mind that some of the people closest to him actually talked about invoking the 25th Amendment and declaring him mentally unfit for the office of the presidency, and that those discussions included [secretary of state] Mike Pompeo and [treasury secretary] Steven Mnuchin, two of the Cabinet secretaries that were closest to Donald Trump.

Two of the three most powerful cabinet secretaries discussed the 25th Amendment? That is intense.

So now you see, it’s not just Pompeo and Mnuchin, we saw the committee unveil those messages from Donald Trump Jr. absolutely at the end of his rope, begging [chief of staff] Mark Meadows to go in and get his father to stop it,” Karl said, “and now we see Sean Hannity, who never revealed any of this publicly, but you see in these text messages that Hannity obviously was not simply a Fox News host, he was a top adviser, a close confidant of Donald Trump, and he was at the end of his rope. He was, again, begging Trump to get off of this, to stop the crazy talk of using Mike Pence to overturn the election, that it was going to cause the White House council’s office to have lawyers resigning en masse, not just Pat Cipollone, but other lawyers in the council’s office, and saying that Trump should never talk about the election again.”

Interesting. Hannity has never mentioned that on-air. Indeed, Hannity himself continues to talk about the 2020 election.

“That was the state you were in. The people absolutely closest to Donald Trump during these days, the people now defending him and holding him up, were saying, effectively, that he was mentally unfit to lead.”

He was always mentally unfit to lead and the fact is, that after 30 minutes of Trump watching people sack the Capitol and doing nothing but basically cheering them on, he should have been removed at that very point.

It remains the definition of dereliction of duty.

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