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04-16-2018, 04:43 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/04/16/homeland-invokes-25th-amendment-unconstitutional-president

By Lindsay Kornick | April 16, 2018 12:54 AM EDT
Showtime’s Homeland has already shown how they're relating the show to the Trump administration this season. Now they've show their true colors by finally reaching the end goal: invoking the 25th Amendment. Yes, I’m sure that forcibly removing the first female president will definitely show President Trump a thing or two.

The April 15 episode “Clarity” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/68630-s07e10-clarity/?do=getLastComment) comes after a continuous investigation into Russian interference within the nation, which likely includes a member of Congress. Because President Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) is becoming more and more paranoid in silencing her opposition, some members of Congress and even her own Cabinet begin drafting an invocation of the 25th Amendment to officially take her out of power.

In her paranoid state, Keane worsens her image by planning to fire almost a third of her Cabinet for being disloyal to her in a move her advisors call constitutional but “unprecedented,” mirroring the media’s reactions to Trump’s actions with his Cabinet.

From this conflict, Keane’s vice president Warner (Beau Bridges) meets with her saying he won't sign the 25th Amendment document if she restrains her behavior.