by Ashley Sadler, LifeSite News:
‘No such thing has ever happened in our country before,’ Donald Trump reacted, blasting the ruling as ‘election interference.’
Reactions have poured in following the Colorado Supreme Court’s Tuesday evening decision to prohibit former U.S. President Donald Trump from being listed on the state’s primary ballot in 2024. Trump has slammed the ruling as “election interference” and his team has vowed to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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On Tuesday evening, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that Trump is ineligible to run for president in 2024 due to his alleged involvement in an “insurrection” on January 6, 2021 and that his name should not appear on state ballots in the primaries, LifeSiteNews reported. However, as Heritage Foundation election law expert Hans von Spakovsky has noted, “no federal court has convicted Trump of engaging in ‘insurrection or rebellion,’” and “the Senate acquitted Trump of that charge in his second impeachment.”
Trump’s campaign immediately slammed the Colorado Court’s ruling as a “flawed decision” handed down in support of “a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden” and promised to “swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision.”
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 19, 2023
In a personal response, Trump himself reacted to the news in a post on his social media site Truth Social, calling Tuesday a “sad day in America.”
In a message sent in all capital letters Wednesday morning, Trump said “no such thing has ever happened in our country before. Banana Republic?? Election interference!!!”
He said that “Biden should drop all of these fake political indictments against me, both criminal [and] civil,” adding that “every case I am fighting is the work of the DOJ and White House.”
Trump is far from alone in condemning the decision, which is likely to spark similar efforts in left-wing states nationwide as Trump appears to surpass Biden in the polls heading into the 2024 face-off.
The Republican Party of Colorado promised Tuesday night to cancel its primary in the state if Trump’s name doesn’t appear on the ballot. The party made the statement in response to Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who vowed to drop out of the Colorado primary if Trump’s name doesn’t appear on the ballot.
