By Stephen Macaulay
The Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on the state’s primary ballot because he violated section three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which reads--
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
--might seem to be the biggest story of the day in Trumpworld. It wasn’t.
Consider, judges in the Centennial State discerned that a former president of the United States violated the U.S. Constitution.
And for those who may recall the day he gave the “American carnage” speech, they may also recall it was the day he stated:
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Presumably he might plead that his performance since then really has been to the best of his ability so you can’t criticize a guy for trying.
No, what was bigger was what he said at a speech in Iowa, reported by The New York Times, on the subject of undocumented immigrants, who he maintains are “destroying the blood of our country.”
The Times reports Trump said, “They”—presumably those who have criticized Trump since he started on that line of rhetoric on Saturday—“don’t like it when I said that. And I never read ‘Mein Kampf.’ They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that.’”
Here is a former president of the United States, who has never been known to be a big reader, justifying his racist rant by claiming not to have read the autobiography of one of the most despicable human beings of all time.
Siding with the ideas of Hitler makes insurrection look minor.
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Haley Gaining in New Hampshire
While many pundits continue to predict the GOP presidential race will be over in a month if former President Trump maintains his lead in the polls, a CBS News/YouGov poll out Sunday says former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is gaining on him in New Hampshire.
Donald J. Trump still leads with 44% of Republican voters, but Haley has 29%, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 11%, just one point ahead of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Vivek Ramaswamy polled at 5% and Asa Hutchinson got 1%. Just last week, popular Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (once hoped for as a potential candidate by anti-Trump Republicans) endorsed Haley over his buddy, Christie. There have been calls for Christie to drop out of the race in order to shore up support for Haley.
In Iowa, first in the nation with its caucuses, Trump is at 58% to DeSantis’ 22%. Haley has 13%, Ramaswamy 4%, Christie 3% and Hutchinson less than 1% in the CBS News/YouGov poll. DeSantis had earlier picked up the endorsement of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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