Trump Praises Supreme Court for ‘Unifying’ Disqualification Decision That Will Be Remembered ‘200 Years from Now’
Former President Donald Trump praised the U.S. Supreme Court for reversing the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision Trump to disqualify from the state’s ballot on Monday, suggesting that the “unifying” decision would be remembered “200 years from now.”
The Court’s per curiam opinion did not pass any judgment on whether Trump could be classified as an insurrectionist, but did rule that the 14th Amendment does not grant states the power to take candidates off the ballot.
On Truth Social, Trump provided an instant reaction to the resolving of the case by calling it a “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!” but he later delivered remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“It will go a long way toward bringing our country together, which our country needs. And they [the Court] worked long, they worked hard, and frankly, they worked very quickly on something that will be spoke about 100 years from now and 200 years from now. Extremely important,” declared Trump. “Essentially, you cannot take somebody out of a race because an opponent would like to have it that way. And it has nothing to do with the fact that it’s the leading candidate, whether it was the leading candidate or a candidate that was well down on the totem pole, you cannot take somebody out of a race.”
He continued:
The voters can take the person out of the race very quickly, but a court shouldn’t be doing that and the Supreme Court saw that very well. And I really do believe that will be a unifying factor, because while most states were thrilled to have me, you know, there were some that didn’t and they didn’t want that for political reasons. They didn’t want that because of poll numbers, because the poll numbers are very good. We’re beating President Biden in almost every poll. New York Times came out yesterday with a very big poll for us, so they, they didn’t like that. And you can’t do that, you can’t do what they tried to do. And hopefully Colorado, as an example, will unify; I know there’s tremendous support, they’ve they’ve brought our support up very strong in Colorado because people though, people in Colorado thought that was a terrible thing that they did.
Watch above via MSNBC.
