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Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California said of the President: “He’s risking the safety of every American. Invoke the 25th.”

Additional Democratic House members, such as Reps. Eric Swalwell,Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Yassamin Ansari, have also called for the removal of Trump by invoking the 25th Amendment.

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., said Machado “was sketchy on specifics” when it came to a timeline for democratic elections in her country.

Some Democrats, including Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Arizona, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, and Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-California, called for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office following news that the president sent a text to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, saying the United States' plans to take control of Greenland stemmed from his not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove: “Ms. Machado was sketchy on specifics, but overwhelming with hope and optimism.

Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Democrat of California, said Ms. Machado wanted U.S. intervention in Venezuela to continue. She also said that Ms. Machado would maintain her dialogue with Mr. Trump to “impart onto him why it is important that there is a regime change” and that elections should be held in the coming weeks.

That was enough for Markey and at least three other U.S. lawmakers. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) and Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) also called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, with Ansari explicitly describing Trump as “extremely mentally ill.”

Puza introduced the members of the City Council who were present, Vice Mayor Bubba Fish, Council member Dan O’Brien, and Council member Yasmine Imani-McMorrin, and then introduced the next speaker, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove.  

Kamlager-Dove also spoke to King’s legacy, emphasizing that “civil rights without economic power is incomplete. He spoke about reconfiguring systems that deny full participation in democracy. I see this every single day, as we are fighting against monopolies and corporations, and for these very things.”