US President Joe Biden affirmed this Wednesday that Donald Trump “certainly supported an insurrection” in 2021, refusing to comment on the court decision that deemed his predecessor ineligible for next year’s presidential elections.
The former Republican president “certainly supported an insurrection, there is no doubt about that, none, zero. And it seems that he repeats it in every way,” said Biden, upon his arrival in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), a day after the Supreme Court of Colorado determines that Trump is ineligible for the presidency due to his participation in the invasion of the Capitol in January 2021.
Biden said today that it is up to the court to decide whether the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which prevents him from holding public office again, applies to Trump.
The Colorado Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, invoked to claim Trump’s ineligibility, does in fact apply to a president.
For this reason, the judges asked the state’s electoral authorities to remove the former president’s name from the 2024 Republican primaries, in which he is the great favorite.
The decision of this instance was suspended until January 4, the deadline for the certification of votes for the primaries in Colorado, in case there is an appeal to the US Supreme Court before that date, reported Agence France-Presse. (AFP).
Steven Cheung, Donald Trump’s spokesman, described the judicial decision as undemocratic in a statement, guaranteeing that the Republican magnate’s defense will appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Source: TSF
