Former President Donald Trump made a proposal to amend the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and announced that he would issue an executive order preventing federal employees from engaging in domestic censorship during a campaign rally in rural Wisconsin on September 7.
Addressing the crowd in Mosinee, a small community with approximately 4,500 residents, the former president also shared his thoughts on recent reports of Russian interference in the 2024 election.
Mosinee is situated in Marathon County, a staunchly Republican area that Trump won with a 16 percentage point lead in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Wisconsin is deemed one of the seven swing states crucial for securing the White House this year.
Trump expressed his support for a modification to the 25th Amendment, suggesting that it should include provisions for impeaching a vice president who conceals the incapacity of a sitting president.
Currently, the 25th Amendment grants the vice president and a majority of the president’s cabinet the authority to elevate the vice president to acting president if they determine that the president is unable to fulfill their duties.
The Trump campaign has accused President Joe Biden of governing with a perceived decline in physical and mental abilities, further claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris has been complicit in suppressing this information from the public.
“Kamala Harris lied about it. My Senate Democratic colleagues lied about it. The media lied about it,” stated Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, on July 22.
Biden withdrew from the presidential race on July 21 after facing pressure from some party leaders who opposed his campaign for a second term.
During a televised interview on August 30, Harris defended Biden’s mental acuity, asserting that he possesses the necessary intelligence, commitment, judgment, and disposition required of a president as desired by the American people.
The most prevalent approach to amending the Constitution involves both houses of Congress passing an amendment with a two-thirds majority vote, which must subsequently be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures.
Trump also vowed to sign an executive order prohibiting federal employees from collaborating to limit freedom of speech.
“We will terminate any federal bureaucrat engaged in domestic censorship under the current administration,” he declared.
In recent years, the federal government has exerted pressure on social media companies to restrict certain posts deemed controversial, including those relating to COVID-19 and vaccines.
“I will restore freedom of speech in America because it has been unjustly taken away,” Trump promised.
Trump also commented on recent reports of Russia’s attempts to influence the 2024 election, similar to their actions in 2016.
“Did you see three days ago, it started again,” Trump addressed the audience in Mosinee. “The Justice Department stated that Russia may be involved in our elections once more.”
On September 4, the U.S. government seized websites operated by the Russian government and filed charges against two employees of Russia’s state media.
“Russia, it’s Russia!” exclaimed Trump. “And you know, this time the whole world laughed at them.”
Trump took a moment to remind the audience of the four-year FBI probe initiated in 2017 to investigate potential links between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign.
Special Counsel John Durham examined the FBI’s investigation and concluded in 2023 that the agency lacked concrete evidence to justify the probe, heavily relied on tips from Trump’s political adversaries, and was plagued by confirmation bias.
The former president emphasized, “Nobody in history has been tougher on Russia than Trump.”
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
The Mosinee event marked Trump’s final scheduled appearance before a debate with Harris on September 10.
The vice president spent the day in Pittsburgh preparing for the debate and also visited a local retail establishment to engage with students, teachers, and other community members, as stated in a campaign release.
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