You can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with the recognition that whether it was doctors, or whether there were staffers around the former president, I don't think he was able to do a good job for the American people. The 25th Amendment got proposed in the immediate wake of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, where the question of whether he could physically survive but be incapacitated was a brief concern about the succession of executive authority. The amount of authority invested into the presidency demands that kind of full transparency, and presidents should understand that they give up the right to privacy when they win election to the office.
Author: Ed Morrissey
Published at: 2025-05-19 22:45:36
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