Trump Issues Cryptic Warning About ‘Big Trouble’ Ahead of Supreme Court Ballot Decision: ‘Does Everybody Understand What I’m Saying?’

 

Former President Donald Trump cryptically addressed a pending Supreme Court case that will determine whether he will be on the presidential ballot states seeking to ban him from it.

Last month, Colorado’s Supreme Court of Colorado and Maine’s secretary of state ruled Trump is ineligible to be president because he engaged in “insurrection.” They cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits insurrectionists from federal office. Lawyers for Trump appealed the rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court, which on Friday agreed to hear the case.

Speaking at a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa shortly after, Trump discussed the case. He noted that many liberals have said that while they believe he should be kept off the ballot, they anticipate that the conservative Supreme Court will rule in his favor:

And they’re saying, “Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court, he owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations. He owns the Supreme Court. He put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them. And we’ll protest at their houses. And we’ll do all of the things that you see.”

And that puts pressure on people to do the wrong thing. What they’re doing is no different than Bobby Knight. They’re playing the ref. I watched that, I said, “Man, they’re really good. They’re really good at it.”

And I just hope we get fair treatment. Uh, because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble. Does everybody understand what I’m saying? I think so, because they’ll cover that completely differently. They’ll cover that in a much different manner. But I’m just saying it’s a very unfair situation that takes place.

Trump is currently under federal indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, in the wake of which he leaned on Republican officials in states he lost to subvert the results. He also faces state charges in Georgia for trying to overturn the results there.

The former president is expected to win the GOP nomination and face President Joe Biden in a rematch in November.

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