This is not a coup, Mr. President. You may not like it President Trump but the 25th amendment is part of our constitution.

So former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe says he and the Assistant Attorney General discussed using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to legally remove a President from office and President Trump considers it an attempted coup. For the benefit those of his followers who do not understand the word “coup” which after-all is foreign in origin, he added “(overthrow government)”. Here is the tweet, a favorite means of Presidential communication in the last 2 years.

This was a discussion. It was not a plot. It was not a coup. It was discussion of a legal method under our constitution.

This is not a quick and easy way to do anything. And not a way to overthrow a government at all. But rather an orderly process to temporarily or permanently remove a President “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” .

Was that an appropriate remedy? I suppose opinions will differ greatly. But that is one reason to have a discussion.