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Tackle Trump and let him pretend he’s president and publicly report that he’s going through a health issue, and Vance take over. It literally needs to be something like that. It’s that bad.
— Robert Barnes, the lawyer who represented conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a defamation case filed by the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, in comments given during an appearance on a recent episode of The Alex Jones Show, concerning a way to remove Donald Trump from office, outside of invoking the 25th Amendment. “You’ve never called for an internal coup before,” Jones said, to which Barnes replied, “[T]hat’s how dangerous this is. That’s how risky it is for the whole world.”
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