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Understanding the 25th Amendment: How It Could Kick Trump Out of Office

  It is known that there are essentially two ways a US president could be removed from office: through impeachment and conviction by the Senate, and through the section 4. No president has ever been removed by either measure – although three presidents have been impeached: including Trump, twice. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment Section 4: Declaration by vice president and cabinet members of president's inability Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. That leaves section 4 of the 25th amendment, designed to be used when a president is “unable to ...

Angela Merkel's Memoirs: Putin's power games

Angela Merkel was born on 17 July 1954, is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. During her chancellorship, Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European Union (EU) and the most powerful woman in the world. Following her retirement, Merkel has written a memoir called Freedom, with her longtime assistant and adviser, Beate Baumann. Angela Merkel spoke out about her experiences with world leaders during her time in office. - Merkel recalls being kept waiting by Putin at the Group of Eight summit she hosted in 2007: “If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s unpunctuality.” She writes. - She recounts a visit to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi that year in which Putin’s labrador appeared during a photo opportunity, although the Russian knew full well she was afraid of dogs. Putin seemed to enjoy the situation, she notes, and she chose not to address it —adhering, as she often did, to the principle of “never ...

Understanding the History of Nuclear Weapons: Insights into the Nine Countries that possess them

    Nine countries have roughly 12,100 nuclear warheads, with over 9,500 in active military stockpiles, according to the Federation of Atomic Scientists' 2024 State of the World’s Nuclear Forces. - At first, you have to know that Russia has the most confirmed nuclear weapons, with over 5,500 nuclear warheads. The United States follows behind with 5,044 nuclear weapons. - A single nuclear warhead could kill hundreds of thousands of people, with lasting and devastating humanitarian and environmental consequences. - At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States hoped to maintain a monopoly on its new weapon, but the secrets and the technology for building the atomic bomb soon spread. The United States conducted its first nuclear test explosion in July 1945 and dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. Read more:  3 reasons why America used the atomic bombs on Japan Just four years later, the Soviet Union conducted its ...

What to do after you vote to make sure your vote was counted

    Every vote must be counted. But sometimes your ballot may not be counted. Ballot counting takes place for days after Election Day, so you may have time to fix some of the problems for why your ballot was not counted. In the last elections, we found that between 4 and 6 million votes were lost due to a variety of problems: - 3 million votes may have been lost due to voter registration mix ups - 2 million votes may have been lost due to faulty voting equipment and confusing ballots - 1 million votes may have been lost as the result of polling place problems Common Reasons why a mail/absentee ballot is not counted: - Signature Matching – The signature on your mail/absentee ballot does not match the signature the government has on record for you. - Failure to follow instructions completely or correctly. Here’s what you can do to make sure your vote is counted: 1.       Track your mail/absentee ballot to make sure it is counted. You ca...

How Kamala Harris (29 years) took advantage of dating a 60-year-old San Francisco politician with pics

    For roughly one year in the mid-1990s when Kamala Harris was 29 years old, she dated 60-year-old San Francisco politician Willie Brown, who was technically married but had been separated from his wife since the early ’80s. Harris and Brown broke up in 1995, and in 1996, Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco, a position he would hold until 2004. Around the time they were dating, and when Brown was speaker of the California State Assembly, Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission. Harris was 30 years old and a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office when she became linked to the then-60-year-old Brown. “He is like the godfather of San Francisco politics and very well known,”. And sure enough, that relationship paid dividends for Harris in more ways than one. Spiering, whose book offers a deep dive into Harris’ rocky tenure as vice president, agreed that the relationship betw...

Ashley Biden's personal diary in details with pics

  We all know Aimee Harris who stole Ashley Biden's diary after the president's daughter left it behind at a Palm Beach 'halfway house" in 2020 and sold it for $40,000 to right wing organization Project Veritas. In early April 2024, Aimee Harris was sentenced to a month in prison, starting in July, and three months of home confinement; her co-defendant, Robert Kurlander, would be sentenced in the future. Aimee Harris got a month in prison for stealing Ashley Biden's diary and selling it for $40,000. Aimee Harris Ashley is the youngest of Biden's children and the only one from his marriage to First Lady Jill Biden. Dates written in the diary run from January 25 to September 18 of 2019 when she was in her late 30s. The diary contained shocking and sensitive information, such as details about her chronic drug abuse, sex addiction, and being 'hyper-sexualized' in her youth. 1- The diary's explosive contents include Ashley's speculation that showe...

U.S. Presidents: The worst assassination attempts in American history (1865 - 2024) with pics

  It is known that assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by grievances, notoriety, financial, military, political or other motives. Assassination attempts and plots on the President of the United States have been numerous, ranging from the early 19th century to the 2020s. On January 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson was the first president to experience an assassination attempt when Richard Lawrence twice tried to shoot him in the East Portico of the Capitol after Jackson left a funeral held in the House of Representatives Chamber. The attempt failed when both of Lawrence's pistols misfired. Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Additionally, three presidents have been injured in attempted...

The reasons why you shouldn't worry about project 2025

  At first, we all know that Project 2025 isn't a hidden agenda. Project 2025 promotes a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals published by the Heritage Foundation. Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to the government, particularly economic and social policies. Project 2025 is a presidential transition project, referring to Jan 20, 2025, when the architects of the project hope Donald Trump will retake the White House. While the project doesn’t have Trump’s name on it, the director of Project 2025 specifically named Trump as the person who will be in charge of implementing (or not) the objectives outlined in the project’s nearly 1,000 pages’ public document. The project begins with three promises: The first promise: “restore the family” and “protect our children.” They want to remove anything related to gender, including the terms “gender identity, gender equality, gender equity,” and more, from any federal rules or laws. The same goes for “ab...

6 reasons why Biden foisted Kamala Harris upon the Democratic Party (Biden's revenge)

  Every four years, U.S. presidential candidates compete in a series of state contests to gain their party’s nomination. The political process is one of the most complex and expensive in the world. No one can deny that the US system for choosing a President is arduous and prolonged, running candidates through lower office contests and debates, requiring years on the national stage, hunts for convention delegates’ support, overcoming lies and truth from the opposition, to attain a nomination for President. Kamala Harris’s likely capture of the nomination at the upcoming Democratic convention in August will not be anywhere as arduous as this. There was never any significant vetting. She was chosen by Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2020, and when he decided to drop out of the presidential race this year, he appears to have given Ms. Harris advance word of both his withdrawal announcement and his intention to name her as his successor. 1- This was Biden’s retribution against t...

United States Gross External Debt: Top 10 Countries holding the most US debt

    A country's gross external debt is the liabilities that are owed to nonresidents by residents. The debtors can be governments, corporations or citizens. External debt may be denominated in domestic or foreign currency. It includes amounts owed to private commercial banks, foreign governments, or international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. The current U.S. debt is approximately $36.2 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury. For the average American, that number is so large it’s hard to even comprehend. But that’s not the only perspective worth noting. When compared with the total net worth held by the American public, the debt becomes much more rational. Total U.S. household net worth is currently over $160 trillion. Per the U.S. Treasury, here are the top 10 countries holding U.S. debt in 2025. Japan                   ...

The full transcript of the Final question of the final presidential debate between Trump and Biden, moderated by Kristen Welker in Nashville on Oct. 22, 2020.

  Welker : This is about leadership, gentlemen. Imagine this is your Inauguration Day. What will you say in your address to Americans who did not vote for you? You’ll each have one minute. Biden : I will say, ‘I’m the American president. I represent all of you whether you voted for me or against me. And I'm going to make sure that you’re represented. I’m going to give you hope. We're going to move. We're going to choose science over fiction. We're going to choose hope over fear. We're going to choose to move forward because we have enormous opportunities, enormous opportunities to make things better.   We can grow this economy. We can deal with a systemic racism. At the same time, we can make sure that our economy is being run, and moved, and motivated by clean energy, creating millions of new jobs. And that's the fact, that's what we're going to do. And I'm going to say, as I said at the beginning, what is on the ballot here is the character of th...

Project 2025: Trump's Presidential Transition Project in 5 points

  The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, commonly referred to as Project 2025, is a coalition effort of more than 70 right-of-center organizations planning for a transition for the next conservative president. The project’s website says: “If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.” 1- The project is a collection of policy proposals to fundamentally reshape the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.   The project aims to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to the District of Columbia to replace existing federal civil servants whom Republicans characterize as part of the "deep state" and to further the objectives of the next Republican president. 2- The Project urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care and ...

4 reasons why Trump is innocent in hush money case

  No one can deny that there is no man in America with more enemies than the 45th president of the United States. For the first time in American history, a former president is facing federal charges would be a big deal unto itself. It has never happened in this country before. Trump Hush Money Case Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories that he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. At the heart of the allegations is a $130,000 payment made to porn actor Stormy Daniels by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from surfacing in the final days of the race. 1- At first, we all know Cohen’s criminal record and his history of lying under oath. Cohen turned against the former president only after he was not given a job in the administration and found himself in legal trouble. So we can't make a serious decision about Trump relying...

4 reasons why Russia won't use nuclear weapons and how many nuclear weapons does Russia have

  On 27 February, Putin ordered Russia to move nuclear forces to a ‘special mode of combat duty’, which has a significant meaning in terms of the protocols to launch nuclear weapons from Russia. According to Russian nuclear weapons experts, Russia’s command and control system cannot transmit launch orders in peacetime, so increasing the status to ‘combat’ allows a launch order to go through and be put into effect. Putin reminded the world that Russia “remains one of the most powerful nuclear states” and he threatened “consequences you have never faced in your history” for “anyone who tries to interfere with us,” a clear nuclear threat to anyone who might come to Ukraine’s aid. How many nuclear weapons does Russia have? Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads, the devices that trigger a nuclear explosion, though this includes about 1,500 that are retired and set to to be dismantled. Of the remaining 4,500 or so, most are considered strategic nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, or roc...

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s annual salary, wife and children in 2024 with pics

  He was on born 14 December 1960, commonly known, is an Iranian politician who is the eighth and current president of Iran since 2021. A Principlist and a Muslim jurist, he became president after the 2021 election. Raisi successfully ran for president a second time in 2021 with 62.9% of the votes, succeeding Hassan Rouhani. According to many observers, the 2021 Iranian presidential election was rigged in favour of Raisi, who is considered an ally of Ali Khamenei. Raisi is often seen as a frontrunner to succeed Khamenei as Supreme Leader. Raisi is one of nine Iranian officials listed in November 2019 subjected to sanctions by the United States Department of State due to alleged human rights abuses. He is currently sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control in accordance with Executive Order 13876. Read more:  Trump wives and girlfriends with pics Helicopter crash He went missing on the 19th of May 2024 and due to a helicopter crash in East Azerbaijan with ...

Alexei Navalny’s net worth, wife and daughter in 2024

  Alexei Navalny was born on 4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024, was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist, and a political prisoner. He organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government.   Navalny was a Russian Opposition Coordination Council member. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights. Alexei Navalny’s net worth Alexei Navalny had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death. Though, it should be noted that it is difficult to accurately determine the exact net worth of Alexei Navalny as he did not publicly disclose his financial information. Additionally, the Russian government accused Navalny of financial wrongdoing and levi...