Trump lashes out at the president after the 2024 GOP hopeful was disqualified from running in Colorado over his January 6 actions.
Donald Trump accused Joe Biden of being an “insurrectionist,” after the former president was disqualified from running for the White House in Colorado.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, suggested that Biden may have violated the Constitution’s insurrection clause. He also criticized the president over rising levels of illegal immigration at the southern border, claims he “weaponzied” the FBI and Department of Justice against the Republican, and over the controversial August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Hi attack came after a historic ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that banned Trump from running for president in the state for violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment during the January 6 riot. The amendment, introduced in the wake of the Civil War, states that a person who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” after taking an oath of office to support the Constitution should be barred from running for office again.
Trump is set to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority bench, including three justices nominated by the former president. Trump has long claimed that all the legal battles he is involved in, including the four criminal cases in which he has pleaded not guilty to 91 charges, are politically motivated “witch hunts” that aim to stop him from winning the 2024 election.
