Fear

I have had this thought before. So many people have left Trump. Eventually he is going to get people who only say yes to him. What happens when the inmate runs the asylum? This is from right-winger Jennifer Rubin:

All this is positively frightful for several reasons.

For starters, some of the people who countermanded Trump (e.g., Cohn) are gone. What happens when someone’s not around to (allegedly) grab papers off Trump’s desk? The White House staff and Cabinet are getting more compliant and less responsible as time goes on, precisely because decent, responsible people don’t want to work for this president."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/09/05/the-dilemma-woodwards-book-raises-about-trump/?utm_term=.d5471d6b7f58

And I had this this thought yesterday: Is it 25th amendment time yet? (The 25th amendment is daunting, I read it in re Trump once before and I could not see it.) But did you see, those of the day care staff who are still there now have all turned tail. Everybody quoted by Woodward is denying: Kelly, Mattis, Dowd. Rubin:

...the reputations and honesty of current and former aides who attest to the president’s fitness are now open to question. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo keeps assuring us of things the president either knows or has said (when Pompeo wasn’t present). That seems like deliberate deception to conceal an uncontrollable chief executive. Likewise, when Kelly and others come forth to issue vague denials, we strongly suspect they are still not telling the truth. Trump seems to have made liars out of his most senior staff and Cabinet officials, who fear disaster would ensue if they told the truth. Moreover, many of these people continue working at the White House, knowing the president is incapable of functioning in the job. Don’t they owe the country their candor and a warning?

The 25th amendment requires the veep AND a majority of the cabinet. Anybody heard a peep from the veep? Nor will you. Mattis is DefSec and he turned. Rubin:

Woodward’s book raises unavoidable, legitimate issues as to the president’s fitness to serve. (A responsible Congress would begin contacting people such as former national security adviser H.R. McMaster and former economic adviser Gary Cohn to determine the president’s capacity to function.)

"Or of such other body as Congress may by law provide," that's where Rubin is going (giving up on the Cabinet) but Jennifer the veep is still required, read the whole thing:

"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..."

It gets harder. Read the whole 25th Amendment. It's virtually impossible.