RFK Jr. Calls Trump Ballot Ban ‘Un-American’: ‘I Don’t Want To Beat Him On A Slanted Playing Field’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came out against the recent push to have former President Donald Trump removed off state ballots for the upcoming 2024 election by claiming it was “un-American.”

The Independent candidate joined Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum for an interview on Wednesday, where he shared his thoughts on Trump’s legal troubles to stay on the ballots in various states.

Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not appear on the state’s ballot because he committed an insurrection January 6th, 2021. A week later Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows removed Trump from the state’s ballot for similar reasoning.

Trump legal team has vowed to contest the decisions all the way to the Supreme Court. The Republican frontrunner has not been charged for insurrection by a prosecutor.

MACCALLUM: What do you think about those efforts to take the former president off the ballot based on an insurrection charge that he has not been charged with?

KENNEDY: I think it’s wrong headed. I think it’s counterproductive. I’m not a fan of President Trump. That’s why I’m running against him. But I don’t want and I’m confident that I’m going to beat him. I don’t want to beat him on a slanted playing field. I think the American people want to see a fair fight. They want debates. They want real democracy. They want to be able to choose their candidate, their president, not have a court, choose it. And as you point out, I’ve read the decision and it makes no sense to me that you can deprive an American citizen of this right to run for president without ever charging him with it, much less convicting him of insurrection. He’s not even charged with a threat. Oh, you know, that seems to violate due process and it makes us look like a banana republic. And by the way, I think it’s going to hurt the people who are behind it. I think it turns Trump into a kind of you know, people know it’s unfair and it turns him into…you know him as a mythological figure. I think it’s very, very shortsighted and it’s just wrong. It’s un-American.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.