In the days following the attack, several news reports surfaced about members of Donald Trump's own Cabinet who were considering invoking the 25th Amendment
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A forthcoming book reports that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — a longtime ally of Donald Trump — once allegedly threatened to support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the former president from office amid the 2021 Capitol riots while urging Trump to more forcefully condemn the mob of his supporters who were descending on the building.
The new details come from This Will Not Pass, which will be published in May and which was written by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
The political news website Axios reported Wednesday that in one passage from This Will Not Pass, the authors claim Graham, now 66, called White House lawyer Pat Cipollone as the riots were unfolding last year, calling on Trump to more forcefully denounce the rioters.
Otherwise, the book reports, Graham said, "We'll be asking you for the 25th Amendment" to remove Trump from office.
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