“There has to be a serious conversation in the Republican Party about how to remove the taint of what Trump has done, how to repair the damage,” he said during an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur. “And while I think the damage is considerable, I think it can be repaired, and it should be repaired. And it should be — from the purely limited perspective of the party, it should be the highest priority going forward.”

To accomplish this goal, Bolton called on the Republican Party’s establishment to exercise more control over the candidate nomination process, ensuring the candidate ultimately nominated has “real character” and “a real philosophy, as opposed to people like Donald Trump.”

Bolton’s suggestion that the Republican Party should nominate candidates that hold ideological views counter to President Trump is interesting given almost 72 percent of Republican voters believe the party should be more like Trump as opposed to the average Republican member of Congress.

Despite President Trump having won more votes than any Republican presidential candidate in history, Bolton argued Trump’s presidency was “an aberration in American politics” and suggested those Republicans who objected to the certification of the Electoral College “should be held accountable.”

“I think individual Republicans are going to have to make decisions whether they support individuals who have participated in this effort to stop the election from being certified. And I think there’s a lot that remains to be seen from their behavior,” he declared.

Trump recently criticized Bolton on Twitter after Bolton highlighted media reports claiming Trump was considering a declaration of martial law to stay in office, calling Bolton “one of the dumbest people in Washington.”

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“Cabinet secretaries in President Donald Trump’s administration are discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office,” reported CBS News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Margaret Brennan.

“I’m talking about about actual members of the cabinet,” she specified.

White House officials claim Vice President Mike Pence has not been contacted about any plans to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Under the 25th Amendment, the Vice President and a majority of the President’s Cabinet would submit a letter to Congress declaring Trump “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” Under that scenario, the Vice President would become acting President.

President Trump could object to the declaration, which would require Congress to make the final determination as to whether or not he should be removed from office.

In addition to current Cabinet officials and numerous Republican consultants and lobbyists, “senior State Department officials are encouraging 25th Amendment discussions along with other officials at the White House and other departments,” according to reporting from Axios.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Pence urging him to remove President Trump from office.

 “Even in his video announcement this afternoon, President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is still unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election,” they argued.

“President Trump’s willingness to incite violence and social unrest to overturn the election results by force clearly meet this standard,” they added.

“For the sake of our democracy, we emphatically urge you to invoke the 25th Amendment and begin the process of removing President Trump from power. President has shown time and again that he is unwilling to protect our Democracy and carry out the duties of the office.”

Other Democrats were quick to pile on.

Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Trump from office are nothing new.

After less than 100 days in office, the globalist mouthpiece The New Yorker reported members of Congress and Trump’s administration were holding secret talks about declaring him mentally unfit for office and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him.

At the time, the focus was on “considerable speculation about Trump’s physical and mental health,” as well as his alleged unwillingness to disclose details about his health.

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