Former United States President and current White House candidate Donald Trump accused his successor, Democrat Joe Biden, of being “a threat to democracy” on Tuesday after being disqualified from the Colorado primary by a state court. .
“No wonder corrupt Joe Biden and far-left lunatics want to stop us by any means necessary,” Trump said at a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa.
“They are willing – he added – to violate the US Constitution at levels never seen before to win this election. Joe Biden is a threat to democracy, he is a threat.”
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday expelled Trump from the Republican primary in that state for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, saying the former president participated in an “insurrection.”
In a ruling unprecedented in United States history, the justices invoked the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which bars people who have participated in an insurrection from holding elected office.
That amendment was passed in 1868, after the Civil War in the United States, to prevent people associated with the southern rebels of the Confederacy from coming to power.
A spokesperson for Trump’s presidential campaign, Steven Cheung, announced that they will appeal the Colorado decision to the United States Supreme Court: “We are confident that the Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and issue a will put an end to these un-American lawsuits. .”
The Colorado Supreme Court has stayed its own decision until January 4 to allow room for a possible appeal, leaving the final decision on the lawsuit in the hands of the United States Supreme Court.
Six of the nine members of the Supreme Court are considered conservative, three of whom were nominated by Trump himself during his term.
The Republican primaries start on January 15 with the caucuses in Iowa and Trump is, according to all polls, the favorite to again meet the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, in the elections for the White House in November.
Colorado will hold its presidential primaries on March 5, on what is known as Super Tuesday, a key date when 16 states will vote and could determine the race.
Source: El heraldo
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