{"id":70,"date":"2026-11-09T17:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:36:46","slug":"donald-trump-claims-unusual-patterns-in-midterms-as-little-known-rule-could-strip-him-of-presidential-powers-without-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump claims \u2018unusual patterns\u2019 in midterms as little-known rule could strip him of presidential powers without impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d172f00b53f8a84f\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel md-content enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color tutor-markdown-rendering\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-busy=\"false\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h1 class=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" data-path-to-node=\"2\">Trump Reverses Stance on Midterm Results as Critics Raise 25th Amendment<\/h1>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Days after declaring he was &#8220;absolutely willing&#8221; to accept the midterm election results and work with a newly elected Democratic majority, President Donald Trump shared multiple social media posts on Truth Social questioning the outcome.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Key Takeaways:<\/b><\/div>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\" data-path-to-node=\"5\">\n<li>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b data-path-to-node=\"5,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Unsubstantiated Claims:<\/b><span class=\"\"> Trump amplified graphics and posts on Truth Social highlighting sudden vote spikes and shifts between the 2022 and 2026 midterm turnouts.<\/span> Sharp vote increases typically occur when election workers publish batch totals, and none of the posts provided evidence of fraud.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b data-path-to-node=\"5,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Reversal from Earlier Comments:<\/b> The posts contradict earlier statements to <i data-path-to-node=\"5,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"75\">The New York Times<\/i>, where Trump indicated plans to cooperate with congressional Democrats.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b data-path-to-node=\"5,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">25th Amendment Discussions:<\/b> Following the challenges to the election outcome, critics have raised Section 4 of the 25th Amendment\u2014a 1967 constitutional provision allowing for the involuntary removal of a president deemed unable to discharge their duties, which has never been invoked.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"attachment-container unknown md-has-block-component\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Reverses Stance on Midterm Results as Critics Raise 25th Amendment Days after declaring he was &#8220;absolutely willing&#8221; to accept the midterm election results and work with a newly elected&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlybirdstories.pics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}