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Lawmaker urges creation of 17‑member 25th Amendment panel, asks Trump physician to testify
Summary
A lawmaker told the Judiciary committee they requested a medical evaluation from President Trump’s physician and said House legislation has been introduced to create a 17‑member body under the Twenty‑fifth Amendment to determine presidential incapacity; no vote was recorded in the transcript.
A lawmaker told the committee that recent social‑media posts by President Trump — including what the lawmaker called instances of "impersonating Jesus Christ" — prompted a formal request that the President’s physician perform an evaluation and appear before Congress.
"I actually wrote a letter directly to President Trump's physician asking him to conduct a test and to bring it to Congress and to come and testify here," the lawmaker…
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