If you are called, I encourage you to write your own letter like the below to Vice President Vance and share it with his public feedback channel here, which is recorded into archives because of the Presidential Records Act. After you post yours to the White House site, you can post on your social feeds as the themes that get shared widely will influence the collective. The more voices that touch upon this issue from different angles the better. This week is key, for reasons I detail below.
Dear Vice-President Vance,
I’m writing as an American citizen to request that you consider moving forward with a 25th Amendment intervention with the President before the close of the ceasefire window.
It is clear to much of the wider public now that President Trump is in a form of mental decline that appears to be dementia. Dr. Vin Gupta, a medical analyst for MS NOW, said that Trump is showing “all the signs of dementia” and his assessment has been echoed by many other experts. Former CIA Director John Brennan said that the 25th Amendment was “written with Donald Trump in mind.”
Those around him are undoubtedly aware of the symptoms of likely dementia and also recognize that this is a progressive disease. If that assessment is indeed accurate, he will never have better executive functioning than today. Things will only get worse. Analysis of his speech patterns, memory lapses, and increase in disordered thinking show disease progression, and each passing week represents a greater threat to the Republic. If that is true, an intervention will be necessary before the end of his term because the risks and the damage to America will become too great. Now is that time.
Based on credible reporting, it’s evident that the decision to go to war, which has cost tens of billions of dollars, resulted in hundreds of American casualties, diminished global respect for America, and resulted in an emboldened Iran, was undertaken in an impulsive way, without sufficient forethought. Many of the war’s strategic decisions, communications, and announcements have also been impulsive and chaotic.
The loss of impulse control is part of the progression of dementia and it’s clear from recent commentary and late-night Truths that President Trump’s communications have become more directly menacing, his claims less grounded in reality, and his swings of temperament more extreme. He is losing control.
Partially as a result, the Iranians do not trust what he says, which is an impediment to their commitment to an agreement to end the Iran War. With President Trump’s evident loss of impulse control, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to develop a trusted plan for ending the Iran War.
Furthermore, the biggest risk happens if the ceasefire fails to lead to a resolution, and President Trump re-escalates to the level of the use of ground troops or even a nuclear weapon, which would unleash forces that would be extremely damaging.
We’re thus in a precarious moment where President Trump’s decline is now reaching a stage where it represents a clear and present danger to the Republic, which calls for the 25th amendment.
With sufficient Cabinet support, you can stage an intervention and become the acting President, which would then need to be backed by Congressional ratification. I believe that you know that such an intervention will become necessary and it’s just a matter of when.
A 25th Amendment removal would be controversial and it’s best to have bipartisan support behind that. Many prominent thought leaders on the right have begun calling for the 25th Amendment. That makes is easier to solidify sufficient Republican support that it is a bipartisan act.
You have publicly pledged your loyalty to the Constitution, not to President Trump personally. You have sworn to uphold the constitutional duties of the Vice President, which includes the discernment to know when a President is mentally incapable of executing his duties.
You are closer to the situation than we are. You are privy to the private conversations. What’s clear is that delaying the inevitable can only deepen the damage. Acting now, in a critical window with the Iran ceasefire, can preserve American lives, lesson the economic damage, and result in less harm for our country.
It is your choice whether to begin the conversations with other Cabinet members and start the process. I encourage you to see it as the most important deliberation you have.
Best,
Stephen Dinan
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