On Thursday, former President Donald Trump seemed confident that the Supreme Court would allow him to remain on the 2024 ballot in Colorado, predicting that the three justices he appointed to the high court and others would rule in his favor.
“We put three great judges, and there are other great judges up there, and they’re not going to take away the vote from the people,” the 77-year-old Republican presidential primary front-runner told the Fox News host. Sean Hannity.
“I’m sure the Supreme Court will say, ‘We’re not going to take away the people’s vote,’” Trump added, accusing President Biden of being the real “threat to democracy.”
In a 4-3 decision last month, the liberal-majority Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was ineligible to appear on the 2024 ballot in the Centennial State under the so-called insurrection clause of the Constitution.
The justices mostly found that Trump “engaged in an insurrection” with his actions before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case seeking to overturn the Colorado court’s ruling next month.
Trump predicted that the judges he appointed to the high court would rule in his favor in the Colorado election case. REUTERS
The former president went on to argue that high court justices should take into account his strong performance in numerous state and national polls.
“But I don’t think the Supreme Court will do it because you can’t vote. You know, I’m leading all the polls. I’m leading Biden, but I’m leading the remaining Republicans…they’re barely holding their ground. How is it possible that they take away your vote? he said.
Trump appeared to still be focused on his pending court cases when Hannity asked the former president to give a “final message to the people of New Hampshire” ahead of the state’s Jan. 23 Republican primary.
Trump appointed three of the nine current Supreme Court justices during his term. fake images
“It’s very simple: Make America great again,” Trump said, before changing the subject to the pending verdict in his presidential immunity case that was heard before a three-judge panel at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. last week.
The former president suggested his immunity case would eventually end up in the Supreme Court as well.
“They have another important [case] and that is immunity for the president, the president of the United States. And I’m not talking about me,” Trump said.
Colorado’s liberal Supreme Court excluded Trump from the 2024 state election last month in a 4-3 decision. Via REUTERS
“I’m talking about that any president has to have immunity, because if you take away the president’s immunity, something very important, you will have a president who will not be able to do anything, because when he leaves office, the president of the opposing party, if it is the party Otherwise, he will accuse the president of doing something that should have been good.”
Trump argued that if the courts rule against him over his claim of presidential immunity, Biden, 81, will face charges when he leaves office over his handling of the border crisis and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, although, as Trump said , “he probably had good intentions.”
“I think it’s horrible what he did, but he probably — I don’t know, it’s hard to believe — but he probably had good intentions,” Trump said of Biden’s policies. “It’s hard to believe he had good intentions, but the man is incompetent. But immunity must be left in the hands of the president.”
If the D.C. Circuit Court or the Supreme Court were to side with Trump on his immunity claim, it would likely hamper special counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to prosecute him for his actions during the Capitol riot.
Unlike the Colorado election case, the former president did not predict what the outcome of his immunity claim would be during his appearance on Fox News.
In a Truth Social post that same day, Trump said he hoped it would be “an easy decision” for the courts.
“God bless the Supreme Court,” he added.
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