After President Trump’s supporters stormed Capitol Hill, egged on by his rejection of the 2020 election results, a small but growing chorus of civic and business leaders and lawmakers released statements calling for his removal from power.
Some suggested that Vice President Mike Pence should invoke the 25th Amendment, which provides procedures that can be used to replace a sitting president who is no longer capable of fulfilling his duties.
“Vice President Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy,” Jay Timmons, the president and chief executive of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Timmons, whose organization formerly had a tight working relationship with Mr. Trump, added that the “outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution and rejecting democracy in favor of anarchy.”
He was not alone in making that suggestion.
A Washington-based law firm, Crowell & Moring, which represents a number of Fortune 500 companies, issued a call on Thursday morning for the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Saying that “when it comes to defending our Constitution and our system of laws, we have a special duty and an exceptional perspective,” the firm asked other lawyers to join it.
Representative Charlie Crist of Florida, who is now a Democrat but was formerly a Republican, posted on Twitter that “The 25th Amendment allows for the removal of a President. It’s time to remove the President.”
Representative Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, echoed that call on Twitter.
Seventeen Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee signed a letter to Mr. Pence calling for the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
“Even in his video announcement this afternoon, President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is still unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election,” they wrote, referring to the video removed by Twitter.
By Wednesday night, at least 84 House Democrats said they supported efforts to remove Mr. Trump by way of impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The list included Representative Mike Thompson, Democrat of California; and Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon. Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont, a Republican, also called for his removal.
Representative Katherine Clark, Democrat of Massachusetts and the assistant speaker, was the highest-ranking lawmaker to demand Mr. Trump’s removal, calling him “a traitor to our country and our Constitution.”
Concern centered on Mr. Trump’s rejection of a fair and peaceful transfer of power — he has repeatedly claimed, inaccurately, that the election was unfair or stolen — and on his failure to call off his supporters as they aggressively and illegally broke into the Capitol building on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump did eventually post a video suggesting they should leave, but in friendly terms.
“Go home, we love you,” he said.
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