Anybody remember the 25th Amendment?
It got invoked numerous times during Donald Trump’s first term, despite no actual evidence that he wasn’t in compos mentis. We have actual evidence that Joe Biden’s faculties left him long before the June 27 debate disaster and his departure from the campaign less than a month later.
Yet, nobody demands that we have a commander in chief who’s mentally with us. And, as the calendar flipped over to 2025, it became clear why we need an active and present president — even if it’s, yes, Kamala Harris.
In the first hours of Jan. 1, a suspected Islamic State group-affiliated terrorist ran a rented pickup truck into the crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 and putting over 30 in the hospital, according to Reuters.
The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was 42 years old. He was a U.S.-born American citizen who lived in Texas and had served in the military. He was killed after he allegedly exchanged gunfire with police.