Haley: ‘Absurd’ to think Cabinet would use 25th Amendment against Trump

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday that the idea the presidential Cabinet would ever consider using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump is “absurd” and denied she’s ever been part of a meeting discussing it.

“I have never been part of it,” Haley told ABC’s “This Week” of discussions of the amendment that allows Cabinet members to trigger the removal of the president by majority vote if they deem the president unfit for office.

{mosads}”I’ve never heard of it, I don’t think that’s a reality at all among all the Cabinet members,” she said. “I’ve just never heard that. That’s absurd.”

.@GStephanopoulos: “Have you ever been part of any discussion on perusing the 25th Amendment as a member of the cabinet?”

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley: “I have never been part of it, I’ve never heard it … that’s absurd” https://t.co/8bSY0ksEN0 #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/VfHmVv9TTQ

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 23, 2018

Haley’s remarks come on the heels of a report from The New York Times that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last spring allegedly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. 

Rosenstein has denied the report in two separate statements, and said he saw no reason to invoke the 25th Amendment against the president. 

“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” the statement released by the Justice Department read. “I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda.” 

“But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment,” Rosenstein said.