Republicans Clamoring for Trump's Impeachment

Pope Leo XIV calls Trump's Iran threats "unacceptable," prediction market bettors put money on 25th Amendment, retired general wants Nuremberg Trials for Trump

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There’s a lot happening that you won’t hear about in the billionaire-controlled press: The pope is breaking with centuries of diplomatic protocol to condemn Trump, members of the president’s own base are demanding his impeachment, bettors are putting money on Trump being removed from office by his own Cabinet, and a retired general is invoking Nazi war crime tribunals to describe what may be in Trump’s future. Let’s dive in.

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Pope Calls Trump’s Iran Threats ‘Truly Unacceptable’

Pope Leo XIV didn’t mince words on Tuesday. After Trump posted on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz, the American-born pope called it “truly unacceptable.”

Leo urged Americans and people of good will everywhere to contact their representatives and demand they reject war. He described attacks on civilian infrastructure as violations of international law, and as a sign of “hatred.”

The Vatican has a long tradition of diplomatic neutrality. Popes don’t typically call out sitting heads of state by name. But Leo is breaking that tradition with increasing urgency.

He tied the Iran conflict to a broader catastrophe in the making: a worldwide economic crisis, an energy crisis, and a Middle East descending into deeper instability. His message to political leaders was direct: come back to the table, talk, look for peaceful solutions, and remember the innocent children, the elderly, the sick who are already becoming victims.

This is a pope who visited Lebanon last year. He’s not speaking abstractly.

Conservatives Call on Republicans to Impeach Trump

The people calling for Trump’s removal on Tuesday weren’t progressives or Democrats. They were Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Anthony Scaramucci. Read that list again.

Greene, a reliably enthusiastic Trump loyalist until very recently, posted “25TH AMENDMENT!!!” in capital letters. She called Trump’s threat “evil and madness” and said the country “cannot kill an entire civilization.”

Jones called it a “WAR CRIME ALERT!!” on X. He said Trump “literally sounds like an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie.” Candace Owens wrote that “the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked” and called Trump a “genocidal lunatic.”

Scaramucci went directly after Senate Majority Leader John Thune, tagging him and asking whether he’d seek the removal of “this crazy person.” He later posted that Trump appeared to be calling for a nuclear strike.

Bill Kristol, a conservative for four decades, simply wrote “Impeach Trump.”

This isn’t the resistance or the mainstream media. These are people who, in many cases, spent years defending or amplifying Trump. When Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene are on the same side of an issue, something genuinely extraordinary is happening.

Prediction Markets Trend Toward 25th Amendment for Trump

Prediction markets don’t determine outcomes, but they do reflect real-time shifts in public expectations. And the numbers are moving.

On Kalshi, one of the largest regulated prediction platforms, the contract asking “Will the 25th Amendment be used during Trump’s presidency?” saw its “Yes” share rise from 28.6 percent to 35.1 percent within the past month. When Trump took office in January 2025, that number sat at 15 percent.

That’s more than doubled in just a few months.

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut called Trump’s Easter Sunday Truth Social post, where the president threatened to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges while adding “Praise be to Allah,” “completely, utterly unhinged.” Murphy publicly urged the Cabinet to consider invoking the 25th Amendment.

The 25th Amendment has never actually been used to remove a sitting president. It’s been used for temporary power transfers during medical procedures, nothing more. Any real invocation would require the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to act, then potentially face a congressional fight. The political and legal hurdles are enormous.

But the fact that the markets are pricing a 35 percent chance of it happening tells you something about the climate right now.

Retired General Wants Nuremberg Trials for Trump

Retired Brigadier General Steve Anderson went on CNN Tuesday and said something that would’ve been unthinkable to say about an American president just a few years ago.

He said he’s old enough to remember the Nuremberg trials. He said he’d hate to see, five or ten years from now, American soldiers and leaders being held accountable for following illegal orders directed by the president of the United States.

Anderson said Trump wasn’t competent and predicted he’d find a way to walk back the 8 p.m. deadline, because bombing every single civilian target in Iran would constitute “a great war crime.” He said Trump simply couldn’t follow through on what he was threatening without crossing that line.

Multiple legal experts and figures from across the political spectrum have said the same thing in recent weeks: many of Trump’s stated threats, if carried out, would be war crimes under international law.

Anderson’s CNN appearance also came with a reminder about the Justice Department’s earlier attempt to investigate Democratic senators with military backgrounds who put out a video urging troops to refuse unlawful orders. A grand jury refused to indict them. Senator Mark Kelly called it an “outrageous abuse of power.”

The broader message from the military and legal communities is becoming harder to ignore: following certain orders right now could expose American service members to legal liability that doesn’t disappear when administrations change.

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