Trump Proposes Anti-Censorship Order, Change to 25th Amendment at Wisconsin Rally

Former President Donald Trump proposed a modification to the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and promised an executive order barring federal employees from domestic censorship at a campaign rally in rural Wisconsin on Sept. 7. Speaking in Mosinee, a community of some 4,500 residents, the former president also commented on recent reports of Russian interference in the 2024 election. Mosinee is located in Marathon County, a solidly Republican area that Trump carried by 16 percentage points in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Wisconsin is one of seven swing states considered critical to winning the White House this year. Trump said he would support a modification of the 25th Amendment to make it an impeachable offense for a vice president to cover up the incapacity of a sitting president. Currently, the 25th Amendment empowers the vice president and a majority of the president’s cabinet to elevate the vice president to acting president if they deem the president unable to carry out the functions of the office. The Trump campaign has alleged that President Joe Biden has been governing with a seeming loss of physical and mental acuity and that Harris has been aware of this but hidden it from the public. Biden dropped out of the presidential race on July 21 after some party leaders publicly mounted pressure against his campaign for a second term. Harris said in a televised Aug. 30 interview that she has no regrets about defending Biden’s mental acuity. The most common way to amend the Constitution is for both houses of Congress to pass an amendment by a two-thirds majority vote, which must then be ratified by three-fourths of the state Legislatures. Trump also promised to sign an executive order barring federal employees from “colluding to limit speech.” In recent years, the federal government had pressured social media companies to block some posts containing material it considered controversial. Trump also commented on recent reports of attempts by Russia to influence the 2024 election, as it did in 2016. The Mosinee event was Trump’s last scheduled appearance prior to a debate with Harris on Sept. 10. The vice president spent the day in Pittsburgh preparing for the debate. She also made a stop at a local retail establishment to interact with students, teachers, and other community members. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. Please rewrite this sentence.

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