Trump VP

mosin46 said:

good question. don't know once both are sworn in. i would guess that it must be through an impeachment process which would require some criminal accusation. usual would just be dump them before a 2nd run but not the case here as trump can only be in 4 years as he has already been in 4.

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Before election it's likely through the party electors or party leadership nominating someone else and then voting on it, after Trump is elected if the VP steps down or is impeached then the President picks somebody and Congress votes on them.

Tucker seems to like JD Vance so that's a plus. I want to see how he debates against that gutter slut Karmela.

Bender said:

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In this instance, Matt Walsh is an idiot and divisive.
Fuck 100 percenters.
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Gee Kay said:

i asked in another post, i dont know american politics, dont even fully understand bs politics over here, if trump later thinks he made a mistake with vp pick, whats the procedure he'd go through to get rid of him and install another vp?

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I believe it is "common practice" to have handed in a signed resignation letter to the president. To be dated at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all.

Once the resignation is "announced as accepted" by the President, the President then nominates his choice for a new VP. That choice requires vote by both houses of Congress, simple majority, for confirmation.

Camelfilter said:

I believe it is "common practice" to have handed in a signed resignation letter to the president. To be dated at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all.

Once the resignation is "announced as accepted" by the President, the President then nominates his choice for a new VP. That choice requires vote by both houses of Congress, simple majority, for confirmation.

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I don't think the VP's ego would permit that. I don't think Spiro Agnew had a pre-written letter for Nixon. He just did it. And I don't think it would even be necessary to have them at the ready for DJT. I think all he'd have to do is call someone into the oval and say, "I want you to resign, now, or..... you know....." And they'd do it immediately! If I were a VP's lawyer, I'd absolutely tell them not to write such a "blank check" letter like that. I'd make them fire me, so that I could avail myself of any litigation I could muster.

Fx51LP308 said:

I don't think the VP's ego would permit that. I don't think Spiro Agnew had a pre-written letter for Nixon. He just did it. And I don't think it would even be necessary to have them at the ready for DJT. I think all he'd have to do is call someone into the oval and say, "I want you to resign, now, or..... you know....." And they'd do it immediately! If I were a VP's lawyer, I'd absolutely tell them not to write such a "blank check" letter like that. I'd make them fire me, so that I could avail myself of any litigation I could muster.

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Makes sense.

My thought comes from the common knowledge that all staff serve at "the pleasure of the president". The VP, not being staff, would have to grant a President that privilege with a signed undated resignation.

Maybe just Hollywood / fiction novel stuff tho. So there's that...

Camelfilter said:

Makes sense.

My thought comes from the common knowledge that all staff serve at "the pleasure of the president". The VP, not being staff, would have to grant a President that privilege with a signed undated resignation.

Maybe just Hollywood / fiction novel stuff tho. So there's that...

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Article ii, section 4.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Camelfilter said:

Makes sense.

My thought comes from the common knowledge that all staff serve at "the pleasure of the president". The VP, not being staff, would have to grant a President that privilege with a signed undated resignation.

Maybe just Hollywood / fiction novel stuff tho. So there's that...

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And Hollyweird usually gets it wrong, anyway. I recall during the "West Wing" series when VP John Hoynes resigned his office as VP. He sent an aide to President Bartlett to deliver the letter. Bartlett tells the aide, "It really has to go to the Secretary of State, but we'll take care of that for you." WRONG! Only POTUS himself resigns to the Secretary of State, as Richard Nixon taught us. All others on WH senior staff (Cabinet level, WH Chief of Staff, etc.) or the VP himself report to POTUS to resign. On a different West Wing episode, the Surgeon Gen. was facing a similar fate. And Josh (Dep. COS) had to go to the Surgeon General and tell her she needed to go. Josh reminds her that she "serves at the pleasure of the President." Her response: "And I'll continue to do so, right up to the moment he fires me!" In the end, she saw Bartlett and tendered her resignation, diretcly to him, but Bartlett refused it and kept her on.

Now, that said, there may be merit in the notion that the WH COS will (for example, at the beginning of a 1st or 2nd term) ask all the cabinet heads for a resignation letter from each of them, thus allowing POTUS to decide who he wants to keep, or not. But that's a specific "ask" and a specific letter, not a "blank check" letter that's always kept on file.